MTLNOVEL Chapter 32: 144
Gao Yi told Ian that he agreed to the request for cooperation.
"Lord Gao Yi, it has been agreed. The Dynasty's fleet has already set out and will arrive at the star system where Malfi is in seven days."
Leon was also curious. Did this dynasty also have its own astropath in Malfi? Wasn't this reply too quick? Or did Ian have a special status in the Monget Dynasty and could make decisions for the wandering trader?
But no matter what, Lyon's goal has been achieved.
Lyon also provided Gao Yi with a large amount of intelligence about Malfi. In addition to the military deployment and ground firepower locations, he also provided a large list of problematic nobles collected over the years.
"Inquisitor Lyon, I hope you can use your political influence to keep the fleet in orbit belonging to the Imperial Navy from being commanded by Glades. The lord does not want loyal warriors to be sacrificed in a meaningless civil war. Do you have a way to shut down the defense platform near Mandeville Point?"
"Yes, perhaps Glades and those affected families can ignore my orders. Some nearby Imperial Navy have also been infiltrated by them, but I am still an Inquisitor after all. I can still command some people."
"Then I'll leave it to you!"
Five days passed again.
Glades became increasingly anxious, as Damon and his crew seemed to have completely disappeared in Malfi, and no matter how hard she tried she couldn't find any trace of them.
Even those Imperial Navy fleets that had originally followed her orders because of her sub-sector commander took action on their own.
When she asked who had given them the order, she was told that it was the Inquisition.
Glades has been searching for the Inquisition's base hidden in Malfi, but has found nothing after all these years.
The authority of the Inquisition is indeed unique in the Empire and cannot be shaken at all. Even the power of the sub-region governor is useless in front of it. Fortunately, the planetary defense fleet that she has spent hundreds of years to manage still obeys her orders, and the countless defense platforms in orbit are also under the control of the planetary defense fleet.
The PDF she established and the powerful family guards gave him the confidence to control the entire Malfi.
These were forces completely loyal to her, and when the orbital defense platform near Mandeville Point was shut down, she immediately realized that an enemy fleet was about to enter the galaxy where Malfi was located.
The large number of hunters that poured into the middle nest has caused chaos in the entire upper nest.
There were even many secret sacrifices, allowing Chaos corruption to begin to grow in secret.
Glades is using this opportunity to eliminate those nobles who are not part of her faction and seize their resources.
Only in this way can she truly rule Malfi and make perfect use of all of Malfi's power.
Norris and his companions have sneaked into her palace, but the search plan is not as smooth as expected.
When Norris brought five ghosts into the palace, they, who had psychic talents, immediately felt something unusual in the palace.
There are actually few living people in the seemingly normal palace. For such a large palace to maintain normal operation, it should have a large number of servants.
However, there are only a large number of automatic devices in this palace to maintain its operation, and these devices are not mechanical creations made by normal Mechanical Adeptus Mechanicus. Although they are very secretive, you can still see a lot of blasphemous technology.
The terrain detection and life signal detection power on the tactical eyepiece have been turned to maximum.
But still nothing was found. There was some kind of psychic energy in the entire palace, invading their perception. Norris hurriedly used the psychic energy to offset this negative effect.
"There's something wrong with this palace, Lord Norris. These forces are affecting our senses! No wonder we can never find the right path, we're basically going in circles!"
Conventional exploration is almost useless in the face of this power.
Norris also looked solemn. The assassination plan ran into trouble right at the beginning.
When he first entered the hive to collect intelligence, he heard a legend that the Governor's palace was like a maze, and anyone who entered without permission would never be able to come out. He didn't expect that this was not an exaggeration, but a real thing.
Psionic magic is altering certain physical structures within the palace.
If someone without psychic talent comes in here, it would be impossible to find the way through by conventional means.
The ghosts who were still invisible suddenly heard heavy and dense footsteps coming towards them.
Norris and others immediately remained still for fear of being discovered, and soon several people who looked like priests came here with some fighter servants.
After seeing these priests and the mechanical creations around them, Norris immediately realized that this group of people were definitely not ordinary priests of the order.
Instead, it was the corrupted Dark Oiler, and deformed flesh had grown at the joints of the mechanical components of the Battle Servant, linking them together.
And these priests are particularly similar to the dark oil man he had killed before.
The profane prosthetics took over their bodies, and near Norris they stopped.
"Be careful! Someone may have sneaked into this palace! The creatures provided by the great Vashtor have sensed abnormal psychic signals here."
But the signal clearly appeared at this location, but all the explorations did not yield any response. The ghosts' special combat uniforms blocked all their vital signs.
In order to offset the influence of the psychic energy here, Norris and others had to actively release psychic energy, and the traitor relied on this to capture their traces.
When these dark oilers wanted to leave, the ghosts fired locking bullets at the same time to control these mechanical enemies in place, and then exerted mental control on all the dark oilers at the same time.
"Steal the data in their brains!"
Mind control made these black oil guys voluntarily release the defenses of their processing components. After the reading equipment was forcibly inserted into their brains, the topographic map of the palace was successfully stolen.
"Got it! Since the enemy already knows we're coming, there's no need to sneak in all the way."
Gao Yi told them that infiltration did not necessarily have to be done secretly, and killing all those who discovered them could also be considered a successful infiltration.
At this time, Franky also said to Glades beside him that some uninvited guests might have broken into her palace.
And is killing her soldiers.
"Those priests were killed? Humph. There's no way they could find the right path in this palace. Don't worry about them. Let the palace guards keep an eye on them. They were just a few assassins. Aren't there many assassins who died in this palace?"
And soon after.
Relying on the powerful subspace engine of the Star Pioneer, Gao Yi's fleet arrived at the Malfi galaxy ahead of schedule.
When the huge fleet appeared on the auspicious chart, Glades found that he had still underestimated this dynasty of wandering merchants.
Both in terms of quantity and quality, it is definitely not the scale that a traveling merchant should have. As the governor, she knows very well how much resources are needed to maintain a warship.
One light cruiser is usually the limit that a dynasty can support.
But now, in addition to the behemoth Star Pioneer, there are also several cruisers in the opponent's fleet.
All those on Malfi who knew about the sudden arrival of the fleet fell into panic.
The identification signal of the warship showed the Monguet Dynasty, and they also knew that their governor's actions had brought about revenge from the other side.
Ian and the others reacted extremely excitedly, but Lyon had a gloomy face. When he actually saw the scale of the fleet, he did not feel the joy of the previous successful cooperation. He had overestimated the strength of the Merchant Rogue Alliance in his heart, but when the other party really showed their fists, he realized that he still underestimated them.
The best cooperation is based on the situation where the power gap between the two parties is not that big, but now? He has become the particularly weak party in the cooperation