"What's strange about that?" Sahansen asked, puzzled. "Some of them shouted the names of the Chaos Gods. That's perfectly normal. Evil and corruption are everywhere. You should take this to the Ordo Hereticus. It's their responsibility."
"I told you, this is a serious problem. Otherwise, we wouldn't be here. Neither would this lady Assassin..." Levinie's gaze shifted to the space behind Sahansen.
A woman in a skintight suit and a mask stood behind Sahansen, as though she had stepped out of thin air. She could turn invisible.
Sahansen fell silent. That alone made the gravity of the situation abundantly clear.
"Our intelligence indicates that the power of the Chaos Gods has indeed increased substantially. Secondly, this increase is closely connected to the civilians you sent onto the battlefield. That was why we initially suspected that you had been corrupted by Daemons and had deliberately brought about those sacrifices."
With that, Levinie took out a folder, set it on the desk, and pushed it toward him.
"Please take a look. We hope it will help you remember something. We need more intelligence to determine the nature of the threat."
Sacrificing lives to the Chaos Gods could certainly please them, but making that red Chaos God even stronger seemed unlikely... The scale was too small. Besides, innocent people were being killed throughout the universe every moment, and Cultists were constantly slaughtering in his name. Wasn't sending civilians onto the battlefield standard practice?
Sahansen did not believe that the deaths of ten billion civilians could truly make Khorne stronger. It defied logic.
The intelligence concerned a civilian named Zhang Jiao. It was a very strange-sounding name. Sahansen's connection to this civilian was that, to encourage civilians who had distinguished themselves in the Defensive Line Counteroffensive War, he had once promised to reward those