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Chapter 318: Lord of the Ultramarines
“We have more important matters to attend to immediately. I don’t have time to waste words on you, Inquisitor.”
Belisarius Cawl continued to focus on manipulating the arcane apparatus before him, never once sparing Greyfax a glance.
In truth, the two were not strangers.
After the Battle of Cadia had concluded, when both the Talon Fleet and the Imperial Navy withdrew from the Cadian Gate, Belisarius Cawl had arrived in the system aboard his Ark Mechanicus, the vast and ...
2026-01-27 11:57:56 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 317: The King of Explorers
“That damned arch-traitor was it?…” the Burning One hissed, “…He deceived us with temporary dormancy, then picked us off one by one while we were tearing ourselves apart in civil war… Those cursed traitors, traitors! No race in the galaxy can rival the Necrontyr in sheer treachery.”
At the mention of the shard mounted upon the Silent King’s throne, the Burning One ground its teeth in fury. The living flame of its form warped and flared, its hatred so concentrated that it...
2026-01-25 09:00:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 316: The C’tan Forge
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At the boundary between the Warp and reality.
Within a stretch of the Webway.
After passing through the ring of roaring flame and slipping into the Webway, Qin Mo turned back to look behind him.
Beyond the burning circle, his research facility was still visible, its silhouette warped and smeared, as though observed through layers of refractive distortion rather than simple heat shimmer. The structure appeared flattened and frac...
2026-01-23 15:53:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 315: Aftermath
“Impressive efficiency,” Anton said calmly, his voice steady despite the devastation that lay between himself and the intruders. “You arrived and killed your way here rather quickly.”
Seeing the enemy arrive, Anton showed no outward panic. Nor did he posture in defiance, shout denunciations, or invoke the Emperor’s name in hollow protest. Instead, there was a strange sense of relief etched across his features, subtle but unmistakable, as though a weight he had carried for year...
2026-01-21 12:44:05 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 314: The Diversity of Mankind
The officer continued speaking about his family.
Chen Ye listened carefully, and piece by piece began to understand what, exactly, was unfolding before his eyes within the upper reaches of the hive-spire.
That stubborn old man really had been a Marshal, though one long since stripped of rank and authority. He had once served as Lord Marshal of the Planetary Defence Force, until he uncovered proof that the current Governor had colluded with Genestealer infiltrators embedded within ...
2026-01-19 15:22:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 313: The Former Lord Marshal
“These heraldry seals…”
Anruida lowered his head and examined the noble crests they had collected, their cold metal surfaces smeared with ash and dust, a faint sense of unease settling in.
Some of these sigils belonged to obscure minor houses, families so small they were barely recorded beyond the Tower-Spire’s archival ledgers. Even if the Noble Guard or the Spire Guard were drawn from aristocratic bloodlines, Imperial custom dictated proportional obligation, and it made ...
2026-01-17 11:00:14 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 312: The Chainsword
The Governor’s extended kin, who resided in the habitation spires adjacent to the Audience Hall, stood upon their tower balconies and terraced viewing galleries, gazing down upon the battle erupting far below.
To anyone with eyes to see, it had long been obvious that since Anruida’s first arrival on Beisu I, Anton had been preparing to overturn the table and reveal his hand. It was not fear of losing power that drove him, but fear that the planet’s absorption into the Talon-contro...
2026-01-15 12:12:42 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 311: Very Bad News
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The Spire
Governor’s Palace
Anton moved through the underground corridors beneath the palace spire.
From time to time, muffled screams bled through the ancient stone, mingling with the thunderous concussions of heavy weapons fire. The deep bark of heavy stubbers and the chattering roar of industrial autoguns echoed endlessly through the tunnels.
All of it came from the direction of the Audience Hall.
There was no mi...
2026-01-13 11:34:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 310: A Warning of Prophecy
After answering Yoan’s doubts through direct and practical demonstration, showing precisely how his grandfather had acquired such powerful knowledge, Khurai shut down the holographic projection. The image collapsed into static fragments before vanishing.
He closed the ancient, leather-bound book with deliberate care and handed both it and the inert projector in it to Yoan.
Before Yoan could ask why such priceless relics were being entrusted to him, Khurai allowed himself a faint...
2026-01-11 09:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 309: Ancient Relics
A long, slender tail.
There was no doubt about it, a purestrain Genestealer.
Pure to an extreme degree. So genetically refined that even its talons were sheathed in disruptive molecular fields, capable of breaking matter down at a fundamental level. A killing organism perfected across aeons of predation and adaptation.
Yoan continued to replay the story of everything that had happened after Khurai’s grandfather died.
“My grandfather is gone,” Khurai had said. “...
2026-01-09 15:34:08 +0000 UTC View Post