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With Mai Mai successfully persuading them, the Adeptus Mechanicus Forge Master only agreed to sponsor some insignificant Astra Militarum equipment. As a bonus, it dispatched a Goliath-class Forge Ship to Rostov II for a temporary stay, with plans to leave after excavating the Necron tomb.

As for the Adeptus Ministorum? Sorry, the Adeptus Ministorum of the Mariupol Forge World itself isn't large, and they all have missions right now, so they can't be spared for the time being.

And the Knight House, the Forge Master didn't agree to mobilize the Knight House loyal to the Adeptus Mechanicus in the name of the Forge World, only stating that Mai Mai could contact the Knight House willing to mobilize, and the Adeptus Mechanicus wouldn't interfere.

Sage Donya did help contact several Knight Houses, but the number of Knights who could come wasn't large. Most only had one or two Knights willing to come, but they needed Mai Mai to send a ship to pick them up.

This result wasn't unacceptable for Mai Mai, but it was still unsatisfactory.

According to the original plan he and Chen Xi discussed, they should at least be able to borrow at least one macroclade of the Adeptus Ministorum from the Adeptus Mechanicus, or have a complete Knight House come.

The current strength can't be said to be useless, but it's not very useful either.

Exploring the tomb might be enough, but fighting a small-scale battle might be difficult.

"How can I persuade those Tech-priests... I can't really tell them there's a big tomb, can I?" Mai Mai scratched its head.

Although it had already obtained the support of the Planetary Governor and the Adeptus Ministorum, Mai Mai's harvest this time could be considered to have met expectations, but if it could win over the Adeptus Mechanicus, it would undoubtedly be better.

As someone who likes to collect everything and achieve perfect endings even when playing games during criticism, Mai Mai still hopes to do its best, at least to run out the Adeptus Mechanicus assistance line.

However, just as it was calculating how to win the support of the Adeptus Mechanicus, a Servitors suddenly reported that a priest of the Adeptus Ministorum and a Sisters of Battle had come to visit.

Mai Mai was a little surprised. The cooperation with the Adeptus Ministorum had been settled. As for the Order of the Sisters of Battle, because the Mariupol Sector mainly consisted of Sisters of Battle from the Order of the Ebon Chalice, and Chen Xi used the Order of the Sacred Rose, which wasn't the same faction, Mai Mai didn't have much contact with them.

Now that both parties are visiting together, did something happen?

But no matter what, Mai Mai still seriously received them, welcoming both the priest of the Adeptus Ministorum and the Sisters of Battle.

"Lord Maim, is Rostov II planting grapes and turning them into wine? Does this wine have the ability to purify Heretic?" The Adeptus Ministorum priest didn't exchange pleasantries with Mai Mai and directly asked the question he was most concerned about.

"Ah?" Mai Mai felt confused, not knowing what this priest was talking about.

However, before Mai Mai could react, the Sisters of Battle from the Order of the Ebon Chalice next to him also asked: "If the sisters of the Order plant it by hand, can they achieve the same effect as the Blessed Grapes on Rostov II? Or do you have some special technology, or has this grape been blessed by the God-Emperor?"

"What's going on? Can you two tell me what happened?" Mai Mai felt his head was full of question marks, so he wanted to figure out what was going on.

He knew that Chen Xi planted grapes on Rostov II, but what was the purification of Heretic? And what are Blessed Grapes?

Mai Mai felt like it didn't know anything.

Hearing what Mai Mai said, and looking like it didn't know anything, the priest and the Sisters of Battle looked at each other before explaining the whole story to it.

"You mean, the grapes planted on Rostov II were blessed by the Emperor, and after being brewed into wine, you can identify Heretic as long as you drink it, and the fallen nobles on Rostov II were directly burned to death?" Mai Mai finally figured out what was going on, but it really didn't know anything about it.

The capital of the Mariupol Sector and Rostov II are separated by nearly a hundred light-years. If it were in the 3K era, humans wouldn't be able to communicate, let alone observe in real time.

In the 40K era, astropathic communication isn't something that just anyone can afford.

Although Rogue Trader's void ships are equipped with astropathic choirs, which can conduct astropathic communication at any time, this thing is actually similar to sending a telegram in the 2K era. You need to encrypt the content to be sent first, and then send it out with Psyker power.

Note that the sending and receiving of star messages also requires the power of the Warp, and only trained and powerful enough Psyker can accurately send the astropathic communication to the designated target.

And ordinary astropaths are more like broadcasting on the public screen, sending messages to the entire galaxy.

Therefore, in order to prevent important information from being intercepted by the enemy, encryption has become the top priority.

Where there is encryption, there is naturally decryption, but decryption takes time. Under normal circumstances, without urgent star messages, astropaths only passively receive group-sent star messages.

Because of this, unless there is something particularly important, the astropaths on the void ship won't contact Mai Mai to tell it what news they have received recently.

However, although it didn't know the latest first-hand news, Mai Mai keenly noticed the huge amount of information and opportunities in it.

So it said: "I'm really not sure about this. When I left Rostov II, Inquisitor Chen Xi was trying to plant grapes on this planet. According to the time, the first batch of grapes should be harvested now, and the wine brewed should also be the first batch.

According to Inquisitor Chen Xi's arrangement, these grapes are taken care of by the novice sisters of the Order of the Sacred Rose, and all the brewing processes should be completed by them."

Hearing what Mai Mai said, the Sisters of Battle of the Order of the Ebon Chalice immediately brightened their eyes and hurriedly wrote down this information.

Looking at her appearance, it seems that she wants to reproduce this process.

"Because the sisters of the Order of the Sacred Rose are taking care of the grapes, they will sing hymns during their work. These grapes are likely to have special attributes due to the influence of the hymns." Mai Mai didn't care what the Sisters of Battle of the Order of the Ebon Chalice recorded, it just made a supplementary explanation.

After the Sisters of Battle recorded what Mai Mai said, she looked at the priest and signaled him to continue.

The priest nodded, and then continued to say to Mai Mai: "Lord Maim, the Adeptus Ministorum attaches great importance to the Blessed Wine. If possible, we will send a delegation to Rostov II to identify the authenticity of this matter.

Once it is identified as true, then Rostov II will undoubtedly become an important holy site of the Adeptus Ministorum. The development projects you discussed with us before must be adjusted. The Adeptus Ministorum does not want any accidents to occur in the holy site."