After finishing his conversation with the Old Bishop, Alex left the Ecclesiarchy's Holy Temple through a secret passage to a landing pad, where he boarded an Avelus shuttle.
After all, there were too many people outside at the moment. If he were to leave through the main entrance, he might be surrounded and unable to leave the city for a year.
After boarding the shuttle, Alex once again withdrew his consciousness. He wanted to see what was going on with the Living Saint he had deployed, and why his account had been directly taken over by the main body.
Waking up in the 3K world, Alex saw his Living Saint miniature placed next to the army case, which made him breathe a sigh of relief.
Although a miniature was nothing to him—if he needed one, someone would make and paint it to the highest specifications and send it to him—Alex was still very reluctant about Huang Lao Han directly taking over his account with the main body.
Especially since he remembered Huang Lao Han saying that all named characters were isotopic, and he wouldn't summon their true selves.
"What exactly is going on? Why did Celestine herself appear when I deployed the Living Saint miniature?" Alex looked at the servitor skull, which served as an auxiliary terminal, and asked his question.
The lights on the servitor skull flickered for a moment, but it quickly explained the reason to Alex: "The Emperor is watching your actions. He knows you need help, so he has given you some assistance.
This is a special case; you don't have to worry about encountering this situation again.
In fact, your miniature was not put in; the Emperor directly caused Saint Celestine to descend."
Alex could somewhat accept this explanation, but he still said to the servitor skull, "I hope you can at least give me a heads-up next time. This kind of account takeover operation is really concerning and catches me off guard."
"Information recorded, will be feedback to the Great Emperor." The lights in the servitor skull's eyes flickered again, seemingly having truly recorded it.
Having resolved this issue, Alex picked up his Living Saint miniature from the table and then asked another question: "If I continue to deploy Living Saint miniatures, will it still cause Saint Celestine to descend?"
"No, you will get a blank Living Saint, just like other miniatures," the servitor skull replied.
"Alright, I understand." Alex had nothing more to say about this.
After all, it was already quite something that the Emperor was willing to explain to him. What else could he expect to ask? He was thinking too much.
Alex didn't pay too much attention to this; he was just asking a question. After all, even if Huang Lao Han really wanted to do something, could he resist?
His ability to traverse worlds was due to Huang Lao Han's great power.
Having resolved this issue, Alex did not immediately traverse again.
Instead, he took the Living Saint miniature back to the model room and pondered his next move.
Now, the trouble with the Ecclesiarchy was temporarily resolved. With the Old Bishop's cooperation, at least before the Great Rift explodes, the Sub-Sector should be trouble-free.
As for after the Great Rift explodes? At that time, let alone the Ecclesiarchy, the entire Imperium would be too busy to care about itself. The holy land, the birthplace of the Battle Sisters, was lost, and it wasn't until the Thirteenth Prince launched the Indomitus Crusade that everything started to get better.
So Alex was not worried about any future troubles.
"Next, I can develop with peace of mind. Since the Old Bishop is willing to provide me with various city-level Void Shields and other things, the renovation of Rostov City can also proceed." Alex had originally planned to start construction after the factory on 32 was built, but now that the Emperor was urging him, some things needed to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.
Fortunately, the Ecclesiarchy promised to get him enough Pilgrims, so the next focus was to get the shipyard running. When a batch of Pilgrims arrived, they would be loaded onto ships, and a squad of Battle Sisters would be assigned to them, all bundled up and sent to open up new planets.
The Rostov Sub-Sector is not large, with only a few dozen planets in total, and most of them are not suitable for large-scale colonization. As long as the Ecclesiarchy can provide continuous support, he can fully expand.
Of course, the number of planets in the Rostov Sub-Sector that add up to 36789 must be reduced, otherwise Alex is sure that once the Great Rift opens, the Chaos corruption in this place will explode.
There are a total of thirty-three planets. Three Death Worlds can be used for colonization or as recruitment planets for the Ash Knights.
After all, the harsh environment of Death Worlds can indeed temper sufficiently excellent new recruits.
As for the issue of three being Nurgle's hidden holy number, it is not that serious.
Although the cycle of three is Nurgle's hidden holy number, Nurgle abandoned death, and the cycle of three fell into stagnation, so the chance of this hidden holy number exploding is not great.
Moreover, he now has Ovilia's planetary terraforming technology. As long as one of them is transformed into a Garden World, there will basically be no problem.
The remaining six Barren Worlds and eight Dead Worlds can also be colonized, but to be safe, Alex thinks it's best to combine them with Rostov II to make thirteen immigrant planets. This way, it breaks their holy number and also makes up the Emperor's holy number, which couldn't be more perfect.
As for the seven mineral planets, Alex plans to blow up two to start mining. This way, seven becomes five, and there's no need to worry about the miners suddenly turning into Nurgle Zombies.
This Planet-Busting work can be handed over to the Adeptus Mechanicus; they are very good at this kind of work.
Only the nine gas giant planets are difficult to deal with, as they are not easy to blow up and cannot be drained in a short amount of time, so they can only be left alone for now.
After all, Tzeentch's corruption is different from the other three. Without enough people, without enough twists and turns and intrigues, Tzeentch's stuff really can't cause trouble.
You can't expect a group of miners to engage in intrigues, can you? Even if they did, it would only be about who gets to be foreman, and Tzeentch wouldn't even care about such small tricks.
Especially since Tzeentch is known as the Lord of Change, and his opposite is stagnation.
As long as he doesn't touch these nine gas giant planets, the problem won't be big, and they won't become ritual tools to summon Tzeentch's things.
However, one of the gas giant planets has already become a hidden stronghold for the Ash Knights, and he is also mining there, so this does require some attention.
After all, the method of hiding troops in a sea of gas does, to a large extent, have a bit of Tzeentch's flavor.
"Damn it, how could I forget this? Don't let a grand plan actually summon the bird-man!" Alex cursed, then picked up the Living Saint miniature again, returned to the activity room, hesitated for a moment, and then put the Living Saint in again.
Only this time, he deployed the Living Saint to Rostov IV, letting her stay with the Ash Knights and be responsible for checking for Chaos corruption.
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