Chapter 122 Empire State Religion (Thanks to Jiao for Making Me the First

Chapter 122 The Imperial State Religion (Thanks to my wife for making me the first helmsman, and I still have six monthly tickets)

Isayama Nomei has already seen two worlds destroyed by the Extermination Order. There is really no living person and no grass growing.

When he heard that Horst Eisenholm might be preparing to sign an extermination order again, he felt helpless.

"Uncle, you are in the wholesale business of [Extermination Order], right?"

Even the Inquisitor Lord cannot sign the extermination order so casually, and he will be held accountable for it. Let the Demon Tribunal take care of this matter (take the blame), after all, it involves the warp evil god Slaanesh.

Isayama Kenmei got all the information from Horst Eisenholm. In short, the Heretic Tribunal originally suspected that there was something wrong with the top leadership of a temple world under the jurisdiction of the Imperial State Church.

The Imperial State Religion, or Church (Ecclesiarchy), is the only designated official religion of the Human Empire and is responsible for spreading and maintaining the belief system in which the Emperor is the only true God.

Developed with the Emperor sitting on the Golden Throne, the Imperial Church has almost unrivaled power and influence in the Empire, and any heretical sect that opposes it will be brutally punished.

This religion is directly managed by the state church, and the empire does not have very high control over it.

How powerful is this state religion? The original purpose of the establishment of the Heretic Tribunal was to supervise the Imperial State Church, a behemoth whose influence spans the entire empire, and to be wary of the possibility that its senior officials may have the intention of betraying the empire or surrendering to Chaos.

The Battle Sisters, the companions of the Inquisitor of the Tribunal of Heresy, are the combat troops directly under the Imperial State Church. Therefore, the Imperial State Church is equivalent to the "parental family" of Isayama Kenmei's adjutant Elena.

But because of a terrible thing Karamazov, the Supreme Inquisitor Lord of the Inquisition Hereticus, had done.

Although this incident did not affect the cooperation between the Battle Sisters and the Heretic Tribunal, it did make the Heretic Tribunal and the Holy See Headquarters in charge of the Empire's state religion not very "harmonious".

It is said that many high-ranking archbishops were so cruel that they bit off a piece of Karamazov's flesh with their mouths and beat the old immortal to trial for heresy and burned him alive.

However, the Empire's [Council of High Lords of Terra] rejected the request of the Holy See. Karamazov was still the supreme judge of the Heretic Tribunal, and nothing happened at all.

[The Council of the High Lords of Terra] is equivalent to the State Council, consisting of twelve highest-ranking officials in each category. (They are all tens of thousands of years old antiques)

Therefore, this "small friction" is interposed between the headquarters of the Heretic Tribunal and the Imperial State Church, which is like a choke point.

Therefore, Horst Eisenholm, one of the Inquisitor Lords of the Heretic Tribunal, decided to send the unlucky Inquisitor Tosak Rome to sneak into this temple world.

As a result, what came not long after was not the news of the execution of heretics deeply entrenched within the Empire's state religion, but the news of the inquisitor Tossac Rome killing all his followers, including twenty of the battle sisters and servants. Whereabouts unknown.

This evidence was enough for the Inquisition's internal intelligence agency to conclude that he had betrayed the Inquisition.

Perhaps when the entire black ship fleet of the Heretic Tribunal sailed into that temple world, the result would have been very different.

But the result of Isayama Kenmei's investigation was that Tosak-Rome did not voluntarily betray the Heretic Ordo, but fell after suffering all kinds of torture from the corrupt nuns of Slaanesh followers.

Even the "Emperor's Daughter" Battle Sister has been corrupted by Slaanesh. One can only imagine how this temple world has been corrupted by the forces of Chaos.

The matter was so troublesome that Horst Eisenholm was weighing the pros and cons of launching an extermination order, but the stupid Imperial State Church still knew nothing!

Isayama Nomei felt that if the Emperor and his elders were still alive, the power of the Imperial State Church that now dominates the sky would not be possible. The most prosperous world in the Empire is basically within the sphere of influence of the State Church, and the State Church spends unimaginable astronomical amounts of money every year. Build a shrine to the Emperor and promote the Emperor's divinity.

This is the biggest black humorous joke played by the Warhammer world on the Emperor, the lord of the human empire, and it is also the most serious blasphemy.

Teachings of the Imperial State Church

"The Emperor is the only true god, and humans must forget all their past beliefs."

"The Emperor will rise from the Golden Throne to complete what he once left unfinished and save his followers from the evil villain of the galaxy, Xiaoxiao. And most people see this as the moment of deliverance, when the Emperor will do something to humanity. Judgment, a curse on those who lack faith.”

This can basically be said to have wiped out the ideals of the Emperor and the hope of mankind, and the Emperor can only watch but cannot change anything.

Ignorant religious beliefs will not do any good to humanity. Only science and the popularization of Imperial truth, the Emperor believes that that is what truly benefits humanity.

The Emperor hates people who regard him as a god. He denies his own divinity!

Even for the Emperor's son, he would inflict the most severe punishments.

One of the twenty Primarchs, Lorgar was once considered the Primarch of the "Word Bearers" legion with the most correct stance on the part of the Empire. In order to show the Emperor his most loyal belief in his old father, the Emperor, he created the A city that declares the Emperor to be the supreme god.

"Perfect City" basically consumed almost all the financial and material resources of the "Word Bearers" legion.

The city is full of temples, large and small. The statue of the Emperor standing in the largest temple is larger than the Titan. Even the residents are followers of the Emperor.

What Lorgar didn't expect was that what he received was not the Emperor's praise but an unprecedented fury. He didn't even feel like seeing his son.

"Destroy the Perfect City for me!"

He directly ordered Grandpa Lan Guilliman's "Ultramarines" Legion to carry out orbital artillery bombardment on the "Perfect City" that the Word Bearers had worked so hard to build.

Except for not dropping whirlwind torpedoes, the orbital artillery bombardment was basically the same scale as the Extermination Order. How angry was the Emperor?

This incident planted the seeds of hatred in the heart of Lorgar, the Primarch of the "Word Bearers" Legion. This was a naked humiliation.

The "Word Bearers" Legion was the first to follow the Warmaster Horus to betray the Emperor. Then during the rebellion, the loyal "Ultramarines" Legion was lured to a designated planet for orbital artillery bombardment. The Ultramarines Legion suffered heavy casualties and lost more than half of its members.

This war was the "Battle of Calth"

So it is impossible for the Emperor to allow fanatical beliefs in his name.

If the Emperor were alive, the Imperial Church would definitely be labeled a heretic, and the people in charge would be crushed to death by him.

However, the rise of the Imperial Church took advantage of the right time, right place, and right people. The human empire was devastated by the unprecedented civil war between the legions, and the people were suffering, so they urgently needed spiritual beliefs.

The Imperial Church has grown wildly and has become an organization more terrifying than the Mechanicus, the "partner" of the Emperor when he started his business.

Although the Imperial Church and the Inquisition are not in harmony, the situation has reached this point, and it is not the time to think about the old grudges. Strong medicine must be taken.

Horst-Eisenholm sent Kenmei Isayama to the temple world of Kerrigan, where Tosak-Rome had an accident, as the Inquisition's supervisory team.

The Black Templars, which was re-established by the "Imperial Fists", were also sent as guards.