In a large house in Xingfu City that has been cleaned up and damaged doors and windows repaired, ethereal and melodious singing is faintly floating out. In the hall on the second floor, a delicate tower-shaped instrument is emitting a rose-colored light. From the light
A group of beautiful dancers in gorgeous costumes rose up, their skirts flying, leaving a golden light in the air as they danced.
In the center of the hall, there is a polished ornate wooden table. The table, which can surround a dozen seats, is filled with plates of food, including sea fish with unique shapes and some with hooves and claws.
There are many land beasts of different sizes, including stewed, fried, boiled, baked and raw.
Other plates decorated with gold and silver threads contained exquisite desserts, and servants wearing bronze-green uniforms similar to the uniforms of the Astra Militarum stood around the walls waiting for orders.
Arni, who was wearing a neat officer's uniform, sat on a chair, listening to the elegant music and slowly tasting the food in front of him with a knife and fork. The room seemed to be filled with soft and hazy ghosts, swaying in the drifting light.
indefinite.
Through the window, you can see a storm blowing outside. Occasionally, a few beams of white light shine in from the tall and narrow windows, making the surrounding scenery particularly vivid, accompanied by the rumble of thunder.
It's not that Arni doesn't want to "fight side by side" with the soldiers, but he grew up in the sunny and spacious Shang'an, and he is not used to that claustrophobic environment. But it's not that he has any claustrophobia, it's just that
He would be in very bad shape in that environment.
So he had no choice but to hand over command to front-line officers and control the situation by "sitting above" himself.
But the time away from the battlefield also made him quite bored these days, and he even had to take out this "sentimentless" video entertainment device to spice up the somewhat monotonous dinner.
When the song reached a new climax, Arni put down his knife and fork and moved his right hand to the empty goblet aside. Immediately, a waiter came over holding a glass wine flask, which was so expensive that most people in the empire could not afford it.
Imaginary wine poured into goblets.
At this time, there was a sudden knock on the door, Arni coughed lightly, and then an attendant opened the door.
"Master."
An officer in his fifties, wearing an officer's uniform, with some gray hair, but looked very capable and shrewd, walked into the hall. There were still some signs of being wet on his body. Then he handed over the hat and military coat in his hand.
Give it to the attendant on the side.
This man's name is Suhrab Ziv, one of the retainers sent by his father to assist him, and also his most relied-upon staff. His previous victories were all due to his advice.
This man was once a regimental commander in the Astra Militarum. He reached the rank of colonel when he was less than forty years old and has been serving in the Gothic sector. However, because he offended a lord commander, he was framed and hunted down. He had no choice but to
He fled to the Maelstrom with his family, and was later taken in by Arni's father. Since then, he has served the Morales family, managed their family guards, and provided basic military training to the teenagers in the family.
After all, their family is also a "military family", and they have had to understand military knowledge since they were sensible.
Therefore, Arni's military mentor in his childhood and adolescence was also Suhrab, and this man was also considered his half master.
"Uncle Suhrab, thank you for your hard work. Let's sit down and have something to eat together."
Suhrab did not refuse and walked cautiously to Arni's right hand side. At the same time, the attendants also placed the knives, forks and plates in front of him one by one.
However, he did not eat immediately, but had someone pour him a glass of wine, which was also his personal habit.
After taking a sip and putting down the wine glass, Suhrab asked his attendant to take out a small cloth bag from the pocket of his military coat, then opened it and poured the contents onto the table.
Amidst the clattering sound, pieces of rose-colored crystals emitted blurry light under the light.
But Arni only glanced at it and withdrew his gaze. Precious gems or crystals were not rare things in his eyes, not to mention that these were not expensive things, just some industrial raw materials.
"Master, the quality of this batch of minerals is very high. The Red Pirates have obviously missed many mineral veins."
"I don't understand why my father has to get involved in the mining industry here so quickly."
Suhrab smiled, then cut off a small piece of meat steak with a knife, put it into his mouth with a fork, chewed it and swallowed it, and replied:
"Maybe there was no shortage before, but it's different now."
"Huh? What happened at home?"
"Nothing is happening now, it's about the future."
"future?"
Arni wiped his mouth, took off the napkin around his neck, and put it on the table.
"Master, this expedition is obviously about to end. The power concentrated due to the war is a huge cake, but it is obvious that the Supreme Commander of Soshyan, as an Astartes, has no way to taste the final
As a result of the fruits of victory, a huge power vacancy will appear, and a more intense war than the expedition will take place within the empire. These wealth will be our ammunition. Your father is actively forming a huge network of allies. He wants to
To dominate the post-war political maelstrom, there must be enough benefits to be distributed and promised, and these are transformed into reality, which means wealth, status, land, and even the army. Whether the Morales family can change its influence from
The expansion of the Sagan system to a wider area depends on the time before and after the end of the expedition."
Arnie smacked his lips in disbelief.
"Why not gain more glory by fighting for the Emperor? This seems boring."
Suhrab knew the young master's temper, but he understood that this was just because the other party was still young. Arni's talent and ability were not bad. At least his military experience during this period had made him grow a lot. It was not that he had lost all his strength.
Wasted on a woman's belly.
"Haha, young master, glory needs to match status. Just like this expedition, the greatest glory will always belong to the Astartes, because they stand at the highest point, and even within them, glory is divided into levels.
The honor enjoyed by the regiment leader is always higher than that of ordinary sergeants, and the pinnacle of all of them must be the young commander of the supreme lord of Soshyan. If you think about those big soldiers who are drilling tunnels, no matter how much they do,
, is there any glory to speak of?”
Arni raised his eyebrows slightly.
"At least they have collective glory."
"Isn't that yours too?"
"Forget it, this kind of thing is nothing worth discussing. What else does father have planned?"
"The master of the family intends to obtain the position of governor of the Badab system for you."
"ah?"
This time Arnie was really surprised.
"Badab? I heard that that place was completely scorched, wasn't it?"