During their conversation, Lin Fan also learned about the current state of the 37th Regiment. The entire Kasare Legion had gone from being a hastily assembled force meant to fill the ranks into a proper, conventional legion that met the Departmento Munitorum's standards.
General Westad had also been commended by the Departmento Munitorum for his role in suppressing the Ork invasion of Armageddon, and the legion's resource allocation standards had been adjusted accordingly.
The 37th Regiment had likewise received General Westad's close attention because Lin Fan's 3rd Company had performed too outstandingly.
If Lin Fan had not vanished, his absurd record alone would have qualified him to take over as colonel of the 37th Regiment, allowing Colonel Mark and Commissar Aude to retire in peace. After all, the two had served the Imperium for far too long.
"So the 37th Regiment is effectively under my command now? In the nine years I was missing, shouldn't someone new have taken the position?"
Lin Fan asked this, but no one answered. Old Jock merely raised his brows at Delia, signaling for Lin Fan to ask the Adeptus Mechanicus priestess himself what she had done.
"I crippled every colonel who came to take over and installed new bionic limbs on them without anesthetic."
Hearing Delia's calm voice, Lin Fan could only feel that this violence-prone girl had not changed at all. To preserve the colonel's position for him, she had used the simplest method.
Scare off every successor, and no one would dare come again.
"Yeah. I was there when Delia beat up the first colonel. It was terrifying."
Damian shook his head. Seeing the captain's insignia on him, Lin Fan knew that Damian had adapted to military life over the years and was no longer the naive young man from an agricultural