Volume 2: The Empire of the God King
Chapter 1: The Rise of the Church Militant
Decades ago at the Founding of the Empire
"So now we are no longer going to be the Sorcerer Kingdom but the an Empire now that we have control over the known world." Ainz ended saying to a table of stunned guardians who were completely perplexed.
Ainz turned to Demiurge as he knew he had a question, "You may speak Demiurge" he said with a wave of his hand.
Demiurge stood up and went through his normal routine of straightening his tie, cufflinks, then glasses. "Master we spent considerable time and effort to make the Sorcerer Kingdom what it is why a sudden change in plan, I do not doubt your wisdom I only wish you to share with use your masterful intellect." as he finished saying this he bowed with respect and sat down.
Ainz knowing he would ask this question internally smiled and said, "I told you all I wanted a 10,000 year Kingdom in my studies I found one. Once there was an Empire that lasted for 10,000 years at its center it was a dead king who sat on a golden throne, whom they all worshipped. This Empire was like any other he made warriors in his own image the Astartes, he also created a religion or cult if you will around him and all worshipped and revered him, they created inquisitors to root out any rebellion. This Empire like Rome constantly expanded and had a billions of people in it and it is my will that slowly over time we shall tighten our grip on the people of this land, we have given them freedom, wealth, now they shall give us what is owed."
Everyone in the room gasped, they have never heard of such a Empire that would in reality crush their own finally Sebas asked, "What was the name of this Empire my Lord?"
Ainz said, "The cult of the Imperium of Man, I will assign each one of you a task after this but first I will tell you our goals, first we must create a Gene Seed to create a new type of super warrior, then power, armour, and new weapons, guns actually like CZ Delta is using. Then a new religious order with me at the centre, then a new holy book that will be the basis of our faith, we will begin today and be ready when the time comes to destroy any enemy before us, although we are powerful, fighting is now below us we shall have our armies fight our battle unless a guardian is needed."
All of the Guardians were amazed at the wisdom that their Supreme Being had and were excited to see what task they would be given. While Ainz was thinking that about how he totally stole the idea and if it would really work as he was basing the future of his Empire on some of his favorite light reading.
Back to Present Day
The Royal carriage was silent, which was unusual as there was a normal stream of banter from Aura and Albedo about what they wanted to do and what they thought of the next place they were going to. Since the Holy Kingdom province was so far way they decided to take mass teleportation to the Kingdom's Royal City then ride down to the peninsula that contained what was left of the Holy Kingdom after the battle between Ainz and the Demon King that started the War of the Kingdoms. Before they took off they needed to visit Akuma City next to Carne City without anyone knowing.
Ainz was fuming, angry, everything in his carefully calculated plans had been moved up, he wanted the fealty trip to be done before war was announced and he wanted to make the Republic the aggressors not the Empire but that was all for not. Now they might have to finish the Tour without Momonga which was the entire purpose of the whole event in the first place, Ainz thought. Just one careless word and the guardians put forth an entire plan without his knowledge, how could he have been so careless? He knew better!
The Holy Kingdom was not like it used to be as most of the nation had been destroyed, the wall was rubble and the only thing left standing was the majority of the capital. After all the dust had settled the Holy Kingdom became a province of the Kingdom State and lost all autonomy except the queen, Theophanu would continue to be governess over the area. They had spend millions in gold reconstructing what was destroyed and had a large influx of beings come in as most of the nation had been taken away by demons. It was difficult at first to get new settlers because the rumours of hell descended to that area but over time the rumours had faded.
Ainz was doing a quick military assessment in his mind and it did not look good, the black brigades were too new, most of the dark army was fighting on the southern front closing in and surrounding one of his greatest prizes "The floating City" and his elite unit was still running down killing the last the Drake riders who were a constant thorn in his side. The only sizeable force that he had that was well trained was the new Templar unit that he had just put Gazef in charge of, and if he could add a religious element to this the population who in no way object to any of their decrees. His son could take care of the council while the Templars take care of the pacification.
"Albedo" Ainz said, as Albedo who was staring at out the window blankly sensing that her husband was mad with her for some reason perked up and made eye contact with Ainz.
"What do you think of the old human Templars now the Imperial Guard occupying the rebel cities after the council is taken care of? Albedo smiled and said, "Emperor I think it is a wonderful idea, was that not the reason you created them?" Albedo said with a quizzical look on her face.
"Yes of course but I wanted to know if you understood the actions behind my motives" Ainz thought about how he hated these types of situations,
"What of the first of the Astartes, the Red and Black Templars are they all ready?" Ainz asked
"Demiurge has finished with the first batch of the Red Templars, Black Templars and Inquisitors, there was a twenty five percent surgery success rate and the rest were discarded into what the carne locals call the white island in the red lake, which is all medical waste." Albedo giggled.
"We made sure to use the captured Slane Theocracy's strongest men correct?" Ainz asked.
"Yes we got all of what they called God-kin, all of the scripture members, including the Black Scripture and due to Shalltear's over zealousness it took us quite awhile to sow them back together and use our sons power to revive them. Of course the first thing we did was wipe their minds. Those of God-kin blood had a one hundred percent success rate. That gave us One legion of Black Templars, One Legion of Red Templars and only Fifty inquisitors as they were much harder to create"
"How about the Armour?"
"The magical power armour is fully functional and operated at one hundred percent of original specifications. It increases the wearer's strength by 250%, the armours mixture of rare metals and runes puts it on divine class armour. It can take a direct hit of level 7 magic and below without any damage. It amplifies the user's magic ability by ten percent, each helmet is linked in through message to other soldiers for real time battle communication. Standard chain swords will be issued to each soldier as well as any weapon of their choice was made for them. The inquisitors have been given magic pistols that each hold seven rounds of magic .50 calibre BMG explosive rounds." Albedo proudly said without needing to look at the reports next to her.
Seeing this Ainz decided to give her some praise, "Very good, I am also impressed that you have not brought this project up since it's inception so long ago. I know you and Demiurge have been very proud of your accomplishments" Ainz said as he could see the floating island rapidly coming up, I will let Demiurge fill me in on the biological developments.
From the ground looking up to the island one who think that it would look like hell on earth but it looked like a Greek city from the top with a large Greco-styled palace that Ainz assumed was where Demiurge lived. As the carriage landed a small imp ran up to the door and opened it, Demiurge the Arch Demon and his evil lords stood rank in file. Ainz exited the carriage and walked toward Demiurge, he and the evil lords and every living being all bowed.
"You may stand" Ainz said.
"Thank you master I am so happy about this city you gave me it is exactly what I wanted." he said with his hand on his heart and have a devilish smile.
"Now that the time table on the Astartes have moved up considerably I have come to see how the process is going." Ainz said.
"Of course Master let us take you through the process I find that seeing it is much better than any report you read at a desk" Demiurge said smiling while Albedo shot him a dirty look, he was a demon after all he could not resist handing out a little misery.
Demiurge snapped his fingers and the evil lord ran and got three men sparring with swords and brought them back, "This is he is the Dorn Lord of the Black Templars, this is Rogal the Lord of the Red Templars, and the last man Malcador the leader and the Lord Inquisitor." Demiurge said.
Each "man" stood at attention and saluted the God-Emperor and bowed, "You may stand, you all must be very proud that you were picked to be the leaders of your units," Each of them were not told what to say so they stayed silent.
Ainz was looking at three human hybrids that were put through the Gene Seed process that stripped them of all humanity, each man was about ten feet tall and had scars all over their bodies, their minds were human but were completely wiped clean in the case of Rogal he used to be the leader to the black scripture but all that was left of him was his head and hands the rest of his body was hybrid. For now they were dolls that took and executed orders they would eventually create new personalities but even that would be monitored.
"On with the Tour Demiurge?" Ainz asked, "Ah yes let us go to the growing rooms." They went into a catacombs that were lit with magic crystal they came up to a door with two large goat demon guards who opened the doors and stepped into what looked like a laboratory of a mad scientist. There were tubes with demon and every other sort of beings at every stage of growth all the way till the eye could see. On one side were black looking hybrids and on the other side there were red looking hybrids.
"So these hybrids are born in my breeding pens with humans, since only 1 out of 10,000 hybrids are viable the rest are stillborn, they immediately have a life spell cast on them and then put into these tubes to grow. The tubes feed the demons bodies as well as the trolls, vampire and other creatures with desirable traits, we then splice them all together taking the healing trait of the troll, the strength height and weight of a demon, the ability to live off blood and see memories from vampires, the ability to have acid saliva from serpents, the extra heart of the harpy, the strong bones of a giant. We put this all together a create the living Gene-Seed which is in the next room"
Everyone walked to the next room, where humans on table having their chest cut open and Gene-Seeds put into their chest. Healing priest in Iron masks stood over the aspirants as they screamed in pain as the Gene Seed slivered through the opening in her chest in began the process of turning them into a new being, "This is where we take the most promising aspirants and implant the Gene-Seed most die of the operation and more during the six month process that changes them into the finished product, we do not revive them as if they are not strong enough to withstand the Gene-seed then they will die later" Demiurge said as he motioned them to move forward.
They all ushered into a large room with fifty men in it, all in military formation, they were wearing long black coats with armour that made them look three times the size of the biggest man, underneath on their belts were pistols a normal human could not hold and shoot with both hands at their sides. Ainz looked at the closest recruit and could see that the man's skin was not quite a human shade it was paler than normal and his ears were pointed. His eyes were also split, "These all are the viable demon hybrids you produced since you firrst started trying when you got here?" Ainz asked.
"Yes sire, they will be the perfect inquisitors, they excel in mental magic, such as illusions, mind reading, psychic powers, they blend in with humans easily and can shapeshift into any creature they want if they mental magic does not work on the target. They are all level 10 sharp shooters and since they sacrifice their attack power due to their weapons they have a high level against physical and magical attack." Demiurge said as a proud father showing of what his child can do.
"Each one of the Inquisitors had a rosette of the Imperial Seal that is a greater magic item and can not be imitated and if someone tried to steal it would automatically explode or poison killing the perpetrator? Ainz asked as Demiurge smiled and nodded in agreement. "Each one is fully functional and has attended fourteen years or more years of studies and physical training. Lord Inquisitor Malcador come here at once!"
A hybrid with medium black hair and a short trimmed beard fell out of formation and ran to Demiurge and Ainz and stopped about five feet away from them gave a salute then bowed, "You may stand and speak when spoken to." Ainz said.
"Yes my God Emperor, I am honoured that your holy feet have sanctified this meeting place!" Ainz was impressed, he had heard they had been raised on scripture and worship and total obedience of the God-Emperor.
"Malcador High Lord Inquisitor I bless the Astartes and call you and your brothers of the Red and Black Templar ready for battle, you shall report to your Lord Gazef Stronoff Martellus the new Grand Marshal and leader of the warriors of the Church Militant. You as Lord Inquisitor are to respect him but you answer directly to me" Ainz said.
Malcador smiled, then led the entire unit in a salute and said, "All for the Glory of the God Emperor may he guide us in all we do." This was the moment that he had been waiting for twenty years being the first born hybrid, he had no purpose but now the Emperor reached down into darkness and picked him and his brothers out of the darkness and ended the mindless work of master Demiurge and had given them a supreme purpose, to wield the power of the Emperor himself.
"Tomorrow you will report to the Inquisitors Keep that has just been built onto the Templar Castle and headquarters you are to be separate in all ways, you were made to root out any rot in the Imperium." Demiurge said as Malcador turned and went back and fell back into formation.
"Next we will visit the powersuit room that mixes the finest technology, magic, and runes to create the Red Templar power suit and the Black Templar power suits," Demiurge said guiding Ainz, Albedo and Mare and Aura to the next room.
The next room looked like a giant factory with cauldrons of molten metal pouring into molds, while an assembly line of minotaurs lifted heavy pieces of armor while another was welding and another riveting the pieces together. Then dwarven workers with finer tools such a hammers and chisels were fine tuning the armour making sure everything fit together perfectly. Lastly runesmiths carved runes of power inside the suits, then they carved what looked like a fine circuitry of grooves between each rune connecting them all together that distributed mana all over the suit giving it power. Lastly a magic stone was placed in the rear of the suit that looked like a pack and the suit glowed and came to life.
"The sealing of magic power in the blue crystals found in the northern mountains proved useful? Ainz asked.
"Yes but not as much as we hoped they can go for a month before they disintegrate we will have to find a better medium for storing magic as a "battery" as you named it, if we are to keep up with demand Master." Demiurge said.
"Let's keep looking you have permission to go through my private library on the magic of this world, if that tribe of Tree Elves that lived in the mountains had not discovered these stones years ago then these suits would not have had enough magical energy to run." Ainz said.
They watched as a black suit with an Templar cross that resembled a black iron cross opened in the front to let the black templar in. He backed in as the suit closed around him, the suit raised it right hand while wiggling its fingers and the repeated the exercise with the other hand. It took a step then another, then picked up what could be described as a sword with a jagged chain running around it started up and then another man threw what looked to be a dead body at the Black Templar and with one swiped he cut through the body in a flash. Then the templar extracted a hooked type sword from the left hand and threw the chuck in a pile and then retracted it. The black Templar walked the suit over to the finished area and exited the suit were around 1000 more just like it were standing.
"Excellent truly excellent each one of these men could fight a dragon easily and a platoon could kill a dragon lord. What about the wild magic anti-measure." Ainz asked.
"Yes each suit in imbued with wild magic resistance that acts like a lightening rod, the wild magic strikes the skin of the suit and then the dragon stones direct the magic to the soles of the feet and into the ground away from the suit the same way one can protect themselves from lightning." Demiurge said.
"The dragons have no idea we found out about the dragon stones we discovered in the Slane Treasuries?" Ainz asked.
"Not that we know of, we believe they were going to use them against the dragons when they thought they could win, we were able to melt them down and put it in the mixture of otherworldly metals used for the suits." Albedo said.
"If the suit is attempted to be opened while the pilot is dead or unconscious?" Ainz asked.
"If that happens it will blow up an entire city but that will never happen, revive spells can be cast remotely and any injuries can be healed with an internal potion spray, I would pity any enemy that tried to steal a suit it would cost many, many lives" Albedo said while looking at a file.
"Good one last thing where is the Adeptus Mechanicus who put the real parts of this together." Demiurge smiled right this way.
They went through the factory to a two doors that were ten inches thick, the door suddenly opened and red robed creatures with mechanical hands and claws worked on delicate looking technology. Some had no legs and just floated around but they all had one thing in common they had skulls for heads and red eyes just like their master. There was one who had a fully human face with tubes going into his face to feed the organic matter with sustenance, suddenly they all stopped twenty of them in all and bowed to the Emperor.
"Adeptus Mechanicus you were all summoned from my magic as high level technomancers, you are worshipers of technology and as your creator I am your God. For your hard work I create the Cult of the Adeptus Mechanicus you are all free to create war machines in my service." They all clicked and beeped in approval, "Technus come forth" Ainz said.
Technus was the one technomancer who was not given the face of the master and was shamed for it, he thought he was going to be finally decommissioned.
"Technus you were created with a human face and voice to be the representative of the Adeptus mechanicus, you and five volunteers will report to the Templar Castle where you have your own quarters and experiment room but your main job will be to fix the battle suits." Ainz said.
Five other Technomancers clicked and came forward before any other had the chance. "Good from now on you're the First chapter of the Adeptus Mechanicus with Technus as your leader!" Ainz said.
"Technus I want you to know something the new leader of the Adeptus and Templars, has no idea about the Red and Black Templars and also does understand or know about the the power suits, I want you right next Gazef Martellus from when he wakes up to when he sleeps, you are his aid when it comes to them here is my seal so he cannot turn you away, understand." Ainz asked.
Technus nodded and grabbed the Emperor's seal with his long slender metal claw fingers that looked like something out of a nightmare, his other hand was human but only up to the elbow and both legs were entirely mechanical but no one could tell under his crimson robe.
"My master, My God who made me, if you told me to dismantle myself I would gladly do it! I thank you for this task and will assist this Gazef starting tomorrow."
"Good Technus get you and your new chapter ready to leave tomorrow, now where is the first drop ship?" Ainz asked
Ainz and everyone followed Demiurge outside where the Greco-Palace that Ainz first saw when he arrived at the Island roof suddenly opened up and a black ship lifted off, it used suspendium, as lift and heat stones imbued with magic to use propel jet engines that gave the ship thrust. the ship was purely for military reasons it had a hold that could carry a legion of armoured Templars and shoulder harnesses that could repel 250 men right into combat.
"Very good exactly to my specification and built in less that two months, have them ship the all viable units to the their new headquarters at Traicere tonight." Demiurge bowed and said, "Yes master.
"What I am now the leader of the Adeptus and Imperial Guard?" Exclaimed Gazef! Zane was not having a good day.
"Yes sire there are now several groups you control with the war coming up, Red Templars and Black Templars who stand ten feet tall and can cut through ten men with one swing of a chain sword. Then the regular human templars or now the Imperial Guards who you are in charge of before, together they make the new Army you are in charge of for the first crusade." Zane said fearing the next piece of news.
"Ok I can see the huge things unloading into their barracks, what else has the war brought us."
"Um yes lord, you are no longer Gazef Stonoff Pretorius as the Pretorian guard has been given to a lesser man you have been made Lord Marshal Stonoff," Zane said.
"What is my title since I am no longer in charge of the royal guard?" He asked Zane.
"Well they see it below you to command 20,000 infantry units and 2,000 armoured units that are ready for the war with the Republic and it is now tradition for the Grand Marshall to change his name."
"So I am no longer Gazef Stronoff what may I ask is my new name"?
"Grand Marshall Martellus, was picked by the Emperor it means hammer of the Empire but when you retire you will still be known as your family name it really is a great honour to be the first Grand Marshal Sir, you are second only to the Guardians." Zane said.
"A name's a name as long as my friends can call me Gazef and you must call me Gazef that is an order!" he said.
Zane shook his head, "The Imperial sealed note said you would say that and decreed it a level 2 heresy to do so."
"Damn it what is this Theocracy!" Everyone around him stopped what they were doing.
"Grand Marshall watch what you say the world is changing and you gave an oath to protect it!" Zane said.
"You are right but I still do not like it." he said as he shook his head.
"Lord Grand Marshal your new aid should be here to explain the new units he his a Technomancer Priest named Technus, he will run the First Cult Adeptus Mechanicus that will be working on the armour for the new units." Zane said.
"What is a Technomancer?" asked Stronoff.
"I believe I can answer that question Lord Grand Marshal Martellus" Stronoff and Zane heard from a monotone voice while his body whizzed and clicked.
"I Grand Marshal am a technomancer as well as your new aid" Technus said as he reached in his gown and pulled out an imperial seal.
Zane saw the seal and his eyes almost popped out of his head, "This, is the seal of the Emperor, you were given that by the Emperor himself to fulfil a task?" Zane really wanted to ask what it was like to be in the presence of the God- Emperor but it was to early to ask.
"Yes I was sent from the God-Emperor's Holy avatar yesterday to fulfil my task which is to train you Grand Marshal on the new power suits the Black and Red Templars use as well as their biological make up" Technus hummed and clicked. He said avatar because the cult Adeptus Mechanicus believed that the God Emperor lived in all things machine and picked that shape to present his holy visage to people. It was this difference in faith that made the the First and only unorthodox cult of the Emperor.
"That is good I suppose that the Emperor was too busy and sent me the best possible aid" Stonoff said as he looked at the slender metal claws that one could call fingers, and then at Technus's face and his one glowing red eye and the other that was completely white, he figured he was blind in that eye and the other was one of these machines that he was made of.
"Yes you are most wise Grand Marshal Martellus, you are the leader of the Holy Ordos of the Imperial Hammer but the Holy Ordos of the Imperial Inquisition answers directly to the Emperor and the leader is Lord Inquisitor Malcador, they have taken the place of High Lord Demiurge's secret police. Malcador will come to your summons and through petition take missions that concern you and has been told to give you every accommodation possible, Grand Marshall." Technus said while following Stonoff outside to see the dropship.
They walked down the main hall for five minutes then opened a side service door for guards to quickly go outside for defence, there hanging in the sky about ten meters in the air was what looked to Gazef like a black flat long castle floating in the sky, he could see huge men walking up and down a platform that went from the ground into the ship.
"It's a flying ship, what is that made of tech priest?" Gazef asked.
"It is a mythril, steel mix that can take a direct attack from any type of cannon or ballista." whizzed Technus.
"It is a marvel of our age" Zane said, in total awe of what he was seeing as the Holy Imperial Hammer headquarters were enormous but the ship next to it dwarfed the buildings.
"The leaders ,Dorn of the Black Templar and Rogal of the Red Templars are ready to meet the Grand Marshall as well as show you the new battle suits that are ready for deployment." Technus said after he received a coded message and deciphered it for the Marshall."
"Good let us walk to the Grand meeting hall of the Imperial Hammers that was built last week, the size of this compound tripled in size in the last two weeks so it should only take us about a thirty minutes walk to get there, Technus can you get a hold of the Lord Inquisitor for me I would like him to be my guest also the leader of the Adeptus Mechanicus." Stronoff said.
"I am transmitting a message to the Lord Malador and as for the leader of the Tech cult I am he so I would be honoured to be at your ceremony, let me inform you on the traditions of the Imperial Hammers as we walk" Technus hummed and clicked.
"As long as your "cult" builds a damn transportation system as your first order it takes a full two hours to go from one end to the other in the complex," Technus relayed a work order for a transport system in the Administratium of the Holy Ordos of the Church Militant complex along with security systems. They were very excited to get back to work they finished getting all the battle gear fine tuned .04 hours ago and had nothing to do.
They walked for half an hour for over three miles of halls, Stronoff tried to blend in after a while because of all the saluting he had to do when people saw him, his uniform was a dead giveaway the Emperor's Seal on his chest of Armour that made him look like he was three times the man and a black leather coat with the Mark of the Templar on the back , only one man was able to wear that uniform and it was the new Grand Marshall Martellus who's legend already surpassed him, he chuckled as he heard to new recruits talking about how the Grand Marshall alone went to the Republic and freed a major city from rebel control, They said he wore a fearsome black skull helmet that shook fear in the hearts of men.
He later asked what his battle armour helm looked like and he said that it was a metallic black skull, he wondered how these rumours had gotten out and he had not known. Technus reached into his cloak and pulled out a device the size of a pebble he told them both to put them in their ears, they could then hear news from around the Empire and also could hear orders and chatter from different templar units, Technus apologized as they were issued last week and he assumed they had them.
The finally came to the twenty foot double doors which held scripture and iconography of the Holy Ordos, Templars and the God Emperor. A Black Templar on the Left and Red Templar on the Right were both standing guard over each door. This was the first time Stronoff had seen them up close, they were ten feet tall, their fingers were as big around as some men's wrist. They were rippling with muscles, they were wearing their official dress uniform that looked like a standard Nazarick Uniform but with Red or Black Templar cross in front of a skull on their shoulder where the unit patch would go. Gazef knew that unit crest was going to be the most sought after when men enlisted because it was the most elite unit, but no man could be that size.
Gazef also noticed that other than the look of respect they had in their eyes that they had knowledge of military protocol but they seems like lifeless dolls with no personality just from looking at them.
"What are they?" Gazef asked Technus quietly so the guards would not hear, "They a human hybrids that have all the strength of a demon and the healing power of a troll but all the smarts and humanity of a being."
Gazef gut recoiled, "The perfect soldier," he said to Technus who nodded.
"Open!" Gazef yelled, he knew he would have to establish himself as a strong leader to these men as he was not sure if he could even win in a one on one battle, so he had to project power as well as he could.
The Guards straightened up to attention then open the door while simultaneously saying, "Entering the Lord Grand Marshal of the Holy Ordos of the Imperial Hammers and the protector of the Church Militant." they shouted.
All two thousand men began to pound one of their feet on the ground in celebration of the arrival of the Lord Grand Marshal, Dorn was standing in front of 1000 of his black templars while Rogal was to his left in the same formation. In a third formation across from them was Malador with fifty of his well suited inquisitors.
Lord Maladar approached and bowed, "May I say it is an honour to be in the presence of First Grand Marshal Martellus," he said finishing with a salute that Stronoff returned.
"Maladar I know you a busy man working directly for the Emperor as I, but I wish our Holy Ordos to work together as brothers." Stronoff said as he looked at the large sickly looking man that was the Lord Inquisitor who was as much demon as he was human.
A Tech priest zoomed up to the group meeting with a pillow and a scroll in his hand, it click and whizzed to Technus how spoke back in tech speak and then grabbed the scroll and said, "Esteemed leaders of the Holy ordos of the Church Militant I have a announcement to make," Malador, Stronoff, and Zane all looked at him as he started to speak the side door opened that led to the priest's wing.
"Grand Marshal 'The Hammer of the Emperor' Martellus I bestow upon thee by the hand of the Holy Priestess of the Church Militant Nemu Emmott Sapato," as he said this Nemu flanked by two fallen angels came into the room with a pillow and something on it none could see yet.
"The Hammer of Gaul to extinguish the flames of Heresy, to stomp out the fires of unbelief, and to destroy the temples of doubt, Ainz Ooal Gown God-Emperor this 30th year of the fire month of the Imperial calendar." Technus said with his speaker turned on his voice so all the thousands of Templars could hear.
It was silent in the room it seemed like the Priestess's feet did not touch the ground as she glided to an awestruck Stronoff. She came up and offered him the mighty war hammer that had the symbols of the Empire and the cross of the Templar and a skull on the pommel. Stronoff still in awe of Nemu's beauty took the hammer and held it with both hands as he knew it was a weapon of fearsome power by the dark aura it gave off, she than put her hand up to Gazef's face and said, "I remember when I was a child you came to save our village despite knowing you would die and the Emperor came and you became friends, I wept with sadness when you left us and I wept with joy when you came back, what the Emperor can take he always can give back, remember Holy Knight of the Empire to protect us all like you wanted to when you were just a man."
With that she turned around and left the room and all viewed her as some sort of Goddess priest that served the Emperor and even stirred the most dark hearts of those warriors of the Imperial Hammer. Then a great sound could be heard of chains rattling and men dragging something of large size. That is when he saw six Templars pulling chains that bound a fifteen foot long dazzling green dragon who had his mouth and eyes bound and next to him two men in chains all had been beaten or had injures when they were taken into custody.
Malador spoke up, "As a show of your might to the men we have captured these Heretic spies of the dragon kingdom, it only took the Inquisition a few hours to find them when given the task. These fools thought they could infiltrate the Empire without our knowledge, they are guilty of level I heresy against the Empire, so we gift them to you to execute," he sad with a satisfied smile.
The prisoners were taken before Stronoff who now knew what the hammer was for, but did not want to kill these helpless beings they could have been living in the Empire for all he knew.
"Unrestrain the Dragon I want to hear what he has to say," The Templars took out the dragons mouth restraint.
Gazef feeling sorry for the beast but did not want to show an inch of compassion as he knew he was a wolf leading lions. He kneeled down and spoke to the injured beast in front of him, "What say you dragon renounce your ways, swear allegiance to the God Emperor and you can go free."
With his big eyes he looked at Gazef, "I look and smell nothing but a den of soulless demons, men who sold their soul for power and you are the worst of them all Gazef or should I call your Martellus your new name the Emperor gave to his pet." The dragon started to laugh.
Immediately the Templar began to beat the dragon, punching and kicking him in the side, the massive punches of those beings caused internal bleeding and the dragon started to cough up blood. The two people by him cried out because they worshiped the Dragon who was in charge of defense in their domain. This was ancient being who had lived as the lord over his domain, taking care of the humans that lived by him by killing all the monsters. To see their dragon guardian who served their families as far back as there were humans in the area, farther back generations then they knew.
"Do you not want to live, a beast as you must be at least five centuries old and what about these men who adore you, recant being an idol, recant being proud, recant being a heretic, the world is changing and whatever does not change with it shall perish and we shall be the God King's Hammer!" Exclaimed Stronoff.
"When your Empire first started, all beliefs, all beings were accepted, now that is not enough for your God Emperor, it will never be enough, that is why we must take a stand now, as for you Grand Marshall for now you are a lamb leading lions, but your lust for blood will grow and you will become a monst…"
Suddenly as the nameless dragon finished his last word, a rage came over Gazef that he had never felt before, his eyes glowed red and as he turned it left a smokey afterglow. The blood of Mars activated in Gazef and before he knew what happened he drew back his hammer and smashed the dragon head with such force in seemed to explode, then leaving his hammer where the dragon's head was he blew out the heads of the men on both sides of the dragon with a right and left and punches. As blood started to rain on all of the men in the room he pick up his hammer and proclaimed.
"By Hammer. By Fist. We shall destroy the Heretics! He yelled with his smoking red eyes he proclaimed as a rain of blood fell. All of the men in the rooms bloodthirst raged and they lost their military composure and began to scream and yell in the excitement of the battles to come. Then there all began to chant what became the official saying of the Holy Ordos of the Imperial Hammers.
"By Hammer. By Fist. We shall destroy the Heretics!"
"By Hammer. By Fist. We shall destroy the Heretics!"
"By Hammer. By Fist. We shall destroy the Heretics!"
Sitting in the Castle in the province of the Holy Empire Cocytus bowed in front of Ainz
"More Adeptus Astartes?" asked Cocytus.
"Yes we plan on losing most if not all of the Imperial Guard Templars that consist mostly of humans. Before battle I will grant them a pardon from death and we shall have our reclaimers transport the dead bodies back to the labs. There we shall finally start our race change program that we have stirred with our finger with the Holy Aministratium of the Eccelastical, and the Adventurers."
"What do you wish me to do My Lord? Cocytus asked.
"When they are reborn into the unclean, you shall be in charge of their unit, they all will die so around 20,000 men so that means 20 more legions. I know you want to serve by my sons side with the black brigades but they are nothing more than a political unit, they will have their uses further on but they are too weak made up of normal beings you can not deny it."
"You believe they all will die Master?" Cocytus asked.
"The republic has an army of 100,000 men and dragons while we have around 25,000 men. The Imperial Hammers are a blunt instrument of war like their name, they shall fight the large battles while the human Templar Chapter of the Imperial Guard shall comb through the cities and hold ground, it has high mortality rate but why am I explaining this to a General?" Ainz said impatiently.
"Yes Emperor, I just thought.."
"Try not to do that, just train my men and kill, you are a warrior not a politician." Ainz interrupted.
Cocytus bowed and excused himself from the room dejected, "Sometimes his warrior spirit is an inconvenience to me."Ainz said to Albedo who uncharacteristically said nothing during the meeting.
"Yes his compassion to the Lizardmen and now humans, would you like me to put him under watch?" Albedo said with a smile.
"No, but I am afraid he will not be able to raise above a General, I just can't see him rule a large nation." Ainz said with a hint of disappointment in his voice.
Author Note: First off this is the first chapter of Volume 2 so consider it a new book if that confused you. I am mixing in my love of Warhammer 40k into the story, thank to Terminator for the suggestion, thank you to my proofreader. Also I know that everyone rags on me for my lack of grammar but I work and go to school full time so I do not have a large amount of time, and if you don't like it why not volunteer to fix it?