Warhammer 40K in a box

Chapter 58 More Nuns

During the time when Chen Xi was away from the 40k world, everything on the Rostov II was still running.

There may be some imperial will at work here, but it will never stop because of Chen Xi's departure.

The funds invested by the State Religion have injected vitality into the development and construction of Rostov II. Although 10 million throne coins is a negligible amount of money from the perspective of the empire, there are still many things that can be done with such a sum of money.

If nothing else, the number of cities on Rostov II has increased from two to four.

One belongs to the Linguang family and the other belongs to the Battle Sisters.

Needless to say, the city of the Linguang family requires a place to accommodate the subjects, knight mechas, and supporting logistics teams and infantry units they brought.

Although the territory allocated to them by Chen Xi had good conditions, it was still a wasteland and they had to build everything by themselves.

Fortunately, the Linguang family took away the wealth accumulated by generations when they evacuated their original territory. Therefore, they did not ask Chen Xi for help in building the city. Instead, they paid a large sum of money and built a city that conforms to the aesthetic taste of knights on the wasteland of Rostov II.

On the other hand, the city of the combat nuns should be considered the logistical facilities of the two orders.

After all, although the congregation does not have many members, their supporting logistical support is no small matter.

Although power armor is powerful, its maintenance is much more complicated than shell armor and bulletproof armor, not to mention the various weapons and vehicles.

A large amount of armaments sponsored by the state religion has arrived, but it is obviously impossible for a nun order of just over a hundred people to maintain so many things.

If the state religion had not considered this problem and sent a matching team of servants, the sisters of the Holy Rose Order might now be so busy polishing their armor that they wouldn't even have time to plant grapes.

Of course, for the state religion, growing grapes is the first priority, and nothing else is important.

Now that the authenticity of the consecrated wine has been verified, ensuring the production of the consecrated wine has become the top priority for the state religion of the Mariupol sector.

Building a fortified city around the valley where the winery produced the consecrated wine was considered a necessary measure by the state religion.

As for the state religion, if necessary, they would even fortify the entire planet to ensure that the production of consecrated wine is not affected.

Of course, while building a city is one thing, the state religion is also concerned about whether the establishment of the city will affect the environment and thus affect the output of the blessed grapes.

So when they were building the city, they specifically asked Olivia to conduct a professional assessment of the environment to ensure that the state religion's city-building would not affect the production of blessed grapes and the brewing of blessed wine.

At the same time, in order to expand production capacity as much as possible, the state religion also invested a lot of manpower and material resources. On the one hand, they asked Olivia to cultivate more seedlings for planting. On the other hand, they also selected a large number of girls of appropriate age from the entire star region and sent them to Rostov II to become trainee nuns of the Holy Rosary and participate in the planting of blessed grapes.

These girls of marriageable age have all undergone preliminary training as combat nuns, or more accurately, piety assessments and related screenings, to ensure that they all have firm faith and will, and that their genes are not contaminated or mutated.

However, even with the strict requirements, the first batch of nuns arrived with a total of 800 people. The young women immediately filled the originally small monastery. Seeing this, the head nun gave these girls their first task: to build a place for themselves to live.

This was a very novel experience for these girls.

Most of them came from ordinary, devout believer families in the Mariupol diocese. Although they were not wealthy, none of them had any experience in building houses.

Although they were devout and willing to work to earn a place to live, the girls did not know how to build a house.

Fortunately, the nun did not deliberately make things difficult for them and sent special craftsmen to guide them.

After all, strictly speaking, building houses is also one of the tasks of the convent. Within the convent, there is also the Convent of Stained Windows, a special convent that specializes in artistic creation and decorative construction of churches.

Although the Battle Sisters are the most well-known members of the Order, the Order actually includes many different functions, including document translation and compilation, servant training, medical rescue, church construction and stained glass production, pagan conversion, hymn chanting, religious processions, and archaeological excavations. Each function has a corresponding dedicated order.

Not all of these enthusiastic girls will join the Combat Sisters. Although most of them will join the two major combat orders, quite a number of them will be trained to become talents in other areas.

Although wars of fighting and killing are vital to the empire, other aspects are relatively more important to the empire.

These girls are currently novices in the convent, belonging to the lowest level of nuns in the convent.

They still retain too much worldly air and need to be trained to develop qualities such as fanatical faith, fearlessness of hardship, and selflessness.

The vast majority of them are familiar with High and Low Gothic, have received basic military training and are capable of maintaining and using basic weapons. They also have sufficient understanding of the major organizational structures and systems of the empire.

In terms of overall quality, these nun trainees are enough to rank among the best in the major organizations of the empire, and even a considerable number of them are from Zhongsi Academy.

The young Figsin is also one of this group of trainees. Compared with other trainee nuns, she has a younger and more beautiful appearance and better physical fitness. She seems to be from a family of senior officers of the Astra Militarum and has a very obvious aristocratic temperament.

When the Mother Superior ordered them to build their own residence, Figesin quickly organized a group of novice nuns, led and directed them to complete the construction of the residence first.

This allowed her to quickly stand out among the other novice nuns and become a leader.

Her outstanding performance even won her the attention of the head nun.

However, young Figesin herself was unaware of this. She was tidying up and decorating the newly built home with her sisters.

Although novice nuns will abandon worldly desires and enjoyments and strengthen their faith in the God-Emperor, a group of young girls still yearn for beautiful things, and decorating their own homes is largely a reflection of this characteristic.

The official nuns who were responsible for supervising them did not stop this practice, but only recorded the individuals who showed artistic and aesthetic talents in the process, who were very talented and had the potential to become members of the Stained Window Congregation.

(End of this chapter)