Conqueror
Saleen folded her arms, standing beside Kahn with some confusion. In front of them, the messenger sent by Terra was standing next to the real-time map, and the navigator who came to explain the map was shivering in a corner.
On the contrary, the forging master Perez stood more casually beside Hades.
Although the oppressive feeling given to Salin by the Silent Sisters and the Imperial Guards in the darkness was stronger than that given by Hades, they seemed to be in a state of anger all the time.
At first, Hades was talking to Perez while looking at the map, but gradually, the expression of the Lord of the Order of Silence began to become serious. Hades stared at the map closely, zooming in and out.
Finally, Hades called the trembling navigator to his side and asked him a few questions - the navigator looked like he was about to faint.
It seemed that they had finished their conversation. Captain Salin strode out, saluted Hades with the Skyhawk salute, and supported the navigator from behind.
"My Lord, have you discovered anything?"
The Lord of the Order of Silence's eyes were not on her. He was looking at the map absent-mindedly, and seemed to be playing with a finger bone in his hand.
After a long while, Hades slowly spoke.
"Here... there is an area where the Warp and the physical universe overlap. Angron and his army disappeared near here, right?"
Salin nodded.
"After Lord Angron led his army to support the Forge World of Salem, he learned about the nearby civilization from the local Mechanicus and went straight to attack, but was attacked by witchcraft unexpectedly. According to the feedback from the navigator, these witchcrafts may have randomly teleported Lord Angron to somewhere in this area."
Hades spoke, staring at the map with numbers on it.
"Salin, please excuse me. This map does not indicate the name of this dimensional rift in High Gothic. What do the locals call it?"
"Maelstrom, my Lord."
Hades stopped twisting his knuckles. No wonder this area looked so familiar to him...
This is quite a trouble.
Seeing that Hades didn't speak for a long time, Salin asked in confusion,
"My Lord, what is wrong?"
The Master of the Order of Silence turned his gaze towards her.
"Nothing, just be prepared for a tough battle."
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On the eighth day after the Black Ship arrived at the Conqueror, with the help of Hades' auxiliary debugging channel, the World Eaters' technical sergeants received an intermittent signal from Angron's armor.
The signal came from a planet at the very edge of the Maelstrom, a dark red and dirty planet that looked as if it had just been spit out by the Warp - and that was exactly what it was.
The content of the signal was not optimistic either. Although Angron was still alive, through interpreting the signal of the Armor of War, the Primarch was now in an extremely high state of emotion, with extreme anemia, high fever, convulsions, exhaustion, and on the verge of death.
If Hades had not been present at the time, Perez, the master forger who analyzed the signal, would probably have fallen into a coma.
Although Hades did not advise Kahn to spread the Primarch's actual situation among the legion, it would cause unnecessary trouble.
But the news of Angron's imminent death still spread among the legion. For a time, an atmosphere of anxiety enveloped the entire World Eaters, and the warriors wiped their axes over and over again.
Hades thought that if the enemy this time was really Khorne, the World Eater, who was now in a state of anxiety, would easily fall into the enemy's trap.
Hades cannot simply deploy the Soulless to the World Eaters' ships without reason, as such an action would be more like surveillance than protection.
Fortunately, in addition to helping the World Eaters capture the signal of the Armor of the God of War, Hades did some other things in the past eight days, which may be able to help him.
For example, he could go deep into the World Eaters Legion and investigate their morale. Although this sounds incredible, Hades is the only tough guy who got full marks in the Martian Technical Sergeant Diplomacy Course, so of course he could do it.
Compared to the Death Guard and the Mechanicus, the difficulty of communicating with the World Eaters in Hades is infinitely close to zero. All they have to do is put down their airs, tell a few low-Gothic jokes, and show off their real skills.
Although the price he paid was the indescribable looks from Charon and Heifa behind him.
"Lord Pluto, we hope you will pay attention to your image."
In the darkness of the room next to the conference room, Charon spoke word by word. Hades in front of him stood in the darkness, with the light only a hair's breadth away from him. He took off his helmet and a hearty smile appeared on his side face.
Inside the conference room were the World Eaters that Hades had asked Kahn to assemble. Most of them were the leadership of the World Eaters.
Hades hopes to discuss some "precautions" with the World Eaters before the battle.
Charon swallowed. It was stupid enough for Hades to go to the arena alone to chat with ordinary warriors. As another representative of the empire's future, he should be noble.
The World Eaters were barely capable of thinking when it came to their Primarch - Charon looked down upon them.
Charon just hoped Hades wouldn't make a fool of himself in the next confrontation.
Hades smiled, he turned his face sideways and stared at the guards with red light. Charon's golden armor was dim in the darkness.
"So what do you want me to look like, Charon?"
Hades said softly,
Charon answered meticulously,
"You need to keep a distance from the crowd and maintain your mystery. You should be noble. I can be your spokesperson."
Hades spoke, almost whispering, his voice so soft that only Charon and Hefa could hear it.
"Like most of the Custodes?"
"Charon, this is not the way to work with the World Eaters. A powerful administration suddenly dropped in - in most cases it would be a disaster."
"If you don't want to see the World Eaters give up supporting the Order of Silence in order to rescue their Primarch in the coming war, then you should shut up."
Charon suddenly paused, and he subconsciously turned his head and looked at Heifa who was also looking at him.
As far as the two could remember, this was the first time Hades... Pluto... had warned them.
This did not discourage Charon, on the contrary, he felt happy. This was a good thing, which proved that Hades thought much more than they did, and they were just deceived by Pluto's appearance.
He quickly wiped away the disrespectful thought.
Charon saluted, breathing steadily,
"As you wish, Hades."
They were silent, and Hades seemed satisfied with their reaction. He turned his head, the servitor opened the door for him, and then Hades strode out.
Hades' serious voice sounded.
"Good day, fellow warriors. As the leader of the Order of Silence, I am honored to fight alongside you. However, since the upcoming war may be very special, I hope to explain the situation to you before the war and start preparations in advance."
"First, I need to introduce to you the enemies and situations that may appear next. The planet where the signal is sent is at the overlap of the subspace and the physical universe, which means that the Legion will encounter many psionic species."
Hades stopped and paced in front of the podium.
"And the Soulless have special attacks against Psychics, so I suggest that before the Legion reaches the target planet, let the soldiers conduct joint exercises with the Soulless."
"That's why the Empire sent the Order of Silence here."
(End of this chapter)