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"Ah! Praise! Praise the Imperium! Praise the Emperor!"

Only one of the two governors remained. He wore an extravagantly ornate noble's formal suit, and his completely bald head was topped with a white curled wig.

This man had undergone countless expensive life-extension surgeries. The wrinkles on his face had been smoothed away, the age spots removed, and his skin was so white it did not look like the color a living person should have. It was more like a can of white paint had been poured over him.

His shrill, exaggerated voice was amplified by the gem-studded brooch on his chest. Oedmeir frowned irritably when she heard it. With a gesture of her hand toward the governor, the soldiers blocked his path.

"Ghk!" The governor was intimidated by the soldiers' pitch-black armor. His mechanical eye scanned the details of their armor, and when it found no relevant information, he shut his mouth and merely waved his hand high in the air.

If the soldiers before him had been wearing standard Astra Militarum flak armor, the governor would certainly have shoved them aside arrogantly and looked down on their rudeness with noble disdain.

"How should we deal with that thing?" Lin Fan asked Oedmeir, watching the governor's anxious appearance.

"Skin him, make him lie naked on a cannon barrel, and execute him with the force and heat of a fired shell!" Perturabo ground out. He had no favorable impression whatsoever of the governor before him.

Oedmeir curled her lip and thumped Perturabo's arm with her fist, telling him to shut up.

"We have to punish him according to the law. A firing squad, for example."

"Just a firing squad for this idiot? That's letting him off too easily!"

"The sentence is one matter. The execution is another." Oedmeir smiled meaningfully, and