National Focus Completed, "Emperor's Epiphany" Decision, New National Focus

The civilian factory efficiency boost brought by the Build Homeland buff caused a sharp, sudden increase in the construction speed of various projects empowered by civilian workers, but Huron only glanced at it briefly.

His attention was on the newly added, almost overwhelming array of decisions.

Coreization, infrastructure, political reform, military construction... Beneath each major category lay a vast number of sub-decisions, making Huron feel as though he had contracted decision fatigue.

The over three hundred political points in his hands were simply not enough in the face of this massive volume of decisions.

However, after browsing through all the decisions, Huron quickly locked onto his first target: Emperor's Epiphany.

Because the description on the panel was extremely enticing: Cost 100 political points. Trigger a global-scale Emperor's Epiphany on Planet Badab, clear away all Warp pollution, strengthen the intensity of the Emperor's Gaze, and unlock new Emperor-related decisions. Gain the permanent "Emperor's Gaze" buff; the residents of Badab are more sensitive to Warp pollution, and Planet Badab is more resistant to Warp pollution.

A permanent buff, the clearance of Warp pollution, the unlocking of new decisions—every single item made Huron's heart throb with desire.

Although the Four Gods and the Emperor should both be reading the casting bar waiting for resurrection at present, the various daemons under the command of the Four Gods had not disappeared. Being located next to the Maelstrom, a Warp rift, Huron was naturally extremely vigilant against Warp pollution.

Yet there was no logic to being on guard against thieves every single day of a thousand days, let alone the fact that Huron currently lacked even the ability to guard against thieves on a global scale.

Therefore, this effect of clearing Warp pollution was immensely precious.

Moreover, looking at the specific effects, it could also clear the pollution in space orbit, giving all warships a completely brand-new look and accelerating repair progress.

There was nothing more to say; Huron directly booked this decision, preparing to use it along the way to endorse the Human Evangelical Ecclesiarchy.

He directly summoned all Chapter higher-ups and got straight to the point: The Emperor is extremely satisfied with our actions, His blessing upon me has been strengthened once more, and He has decided to perform a global epiphany to show His recognition of us. All units shall do a good job of propaganda for this, scheduled for the Emperor Ascension Festival to perform the global epiphany.

The Emperor, secretly eavesdropping from behind the screen: "?"

What happened? How did my blessing get strengthened again? And an epiphany? How come I didn't know about this? Does my current strength allow me to do this kind of thing?

He suddenly thought of another possibility.

Could Huron have been corrupted by Warp pollution?!

Gah! There's cuckoldry here! Don't you guys touch my chosen one!

The Emperor immediately became terrified and began to carefully observe Huron's soul.

Yet no matter how He looked, Huron was completely normal, without the slightest sign of being corrupted.

In the conference room, Master of Sanctity Damien spoke with some excitement: Really? Chapter Master? The Emperor will manifest during the Ascension Festival?

As a Chapter Chaplain, he was actually extremely dissatisfied with Huron establishing a new sect and mixing a large amount of "weak" content into the sect's scriptures.

However, if the Emperor truly manifested, wouldn't that mean the Emperor highly approved of this? As a devout believer, Damien believed he should devote himself body and soul to the Emperor's will.

If the Emperor approved of Huron, then he would harbor not a shred of resentment toward the Human Evangelical, instead devoting himself fully and dying a martyr for the spread of the sect.

Huron wore a confident expression: Naturally.

He was certainly confident; whether that old thing the Emperor would manifest at that time, he didn't know, but the system had never let him down so far.

Odinson reacted enthusiastically to this: This is a good thing. Right now, tens of billions of people across the entire Hive City need to be controlled by us. Having the Emperor's recognition can strengthen the Hive residents' sense of identity toward us, save a massive amount of energy and resources used for maintaining stability, and also accelerate the construction of the Hive.

Huron nodded: That's right, so I hope various departments do a good job with propaganda, including the other 13 Hive Cities; they must all be notified properly so they know who the orthodox authority is and who the practitioner of the Emperor's will is.

Because of a shortage of manpower, the other 13 Hive Cities were basically in a state of laissez-faire; aside from paying tribute in resources, Huron couldn't really control them either.

He would just take this opportunity to properly knock them down a peg, and by the way, publicize the achievements of the Astral Claws.

To save a bunch of freaks and demons from rushing in to steal the credit after the Emperor's Epiphany.

Having arranged this propaganda plan, the meeting concluded, and everyone began preparing for the celebration of the Emperor Ascension Festival in a few days' time.

As for Huron, he continued browsing through the contents of the other decisions.

Establish Rule Over Palatus Hive. Cost 50 political points and 90 days of time, establishing our rightful rule. Palatus will become core territory.

Requirements: Stability greater than 80%, establishing a comprehensive new order locally.

Effects: The number of factories provided by this region increases; stability in this region increases, and the stability cap is raised; political points provided by this region increase.

Huron clicked this decision directly, because the buffs were indeed very fierce; core regions and non-core regions were like two different worlds.

The number of factories provided by a core could increase by about one-third, equivalent to getting a factory out of thin air, and as the development level of the core region grew higher and higher, the number of factories provided would also increase more and more.

Stability went without saying; it could directly boost factory production capacity, and moreover, after coreization, stability could reach a maximum of 200%. 100% stability could amplify production capacity by 20%; Huron didn't even dare to imagine how fierce the effect of 200% would be.

Political points also needed no elaboration: accumulate little by little, enjoy early and enjoy often.

Then came infrastructure-related matters.

Accelerate Homeland Construction. Cost 50 political points, gaining the one-year "Accelerate Homeland Construction" buff.

Specific effects: All factory efficiency increased by 30%, all physical engineering efficiency increased by 30%. Furthermore, more political points can be invested to strengthen the efficiency of various sub-projects.

Clicking this decision strengthened both void factories and physical engineering. Under this kind of left-foot-stepping-on-right-foot mutual buff, the Hive City reconstruction project that originally required 3 years was compressed directly down to a little over a year and a half.

The times for all other various projects were also significantly shortened, especially projects blessed by civilian factories, which saw their time cut directly in half.

After clicking both decisions, only 230 political points remained. These political points had to be reserved for clicking the Emperor's Epiphany decision, as well as preparing for the powerful decisions that might appear after the Emperor's Epiphany.

Therefore Huron could only watch the remaining massive pile of decisions and drool.

He now incomparably yearned for the days of opening the console in the past to directly type "pp" at the start, instantly clicking all useful decisions that could be clicked.

Unfortunately, reality was not a game; there was no console, and he could only honestly wait for political points to increase.

As for the new national focus, Huron chose Strengthen Production Construction (0/360).

Strengthen Production Construction

Introduction: True orthodoxy comes from the improvement of the people's livelihood; we must strengthen our production and construction capabilities in order to fulfill our promises to the populace.

Effect: Gain the five-year "Emphasize Production Construction" buff, all factories and actual engineering efficiency strengthened by 50%, and unlock related decisions.

Once this national focus was completed, coupled with other buffs and bonuses, Badab's construction speed would reach an unimaginably fast level. Moreover, it would unlock related decisions, spending political points to further accelerate progress.

This was also Huron's consistent goal: farming, farming, and fucking farming! In the absence of a large-scale, long-term war demand, all national focuses completely gave way to production and construction.

Very soon, time arrived at the Emperor Ascension Festival of 719.M41. It was also Huron's second year coming to this world.

Through several days of vigorous propaganda, all citizens knew that today the Emperor would descend into the mortal world and bring good tidings.

Therefore, everyone craned their necks in eager anticipation.