Emperor's Daughter of the Red Sands

Chapter 78 The Dusk Before the Long Night
"...Lynn, are you going to launch a cyclone torpedo on Colchis?"

After hearing Elaine's report, Lorgar was stunned.

At this moment, Lorgar's face, which was very similar to that of the Lord of Humanity, revealed a level of astonishment that the Emperor himself had never shown.

"That's right—although those dangerous energy reactions have temporarily stopped their activities after learning the news that we are still alive, but it is still not optimistic. It seems that my brother who has never met has a very strong understanding of the Iron Man problem." The rigor' is indeed surprising."

Elaine spread her hands helplessly. In her memory, Ryan El'jonson's ruthlessness was indeed ranked among many Primarchs.It's just that she didn't expect too much about the current extreme situation.

After all, who would immediately release a strategic weapon like a cyclone torpedo just because of an early warning event of Iron Man's activities?

Obviously, even Lorgar was shocked by Ryan's actions and thoughts.

"This is simply unreasonable..."

Lorgar gritted his teeth.Not only because his hometown may be about to face the fate of destruction, but in his impression, that proud and ruthless knight brother——Lian El'Jonson, it is absolutely impossible to ruthlessly destroy his hometown. destroy.

At this moment, the incomprehensible emergency situation in front of him even made Lorgar feel astonished when he returned to the perfect city...

"There are many unreasonable things...I think this is definitely not the first thing you and I will encounter."

Elaine sighed and rubbed her forehead, a little wet hair and sweat showed that her situation was not optimistic.

Just now, when she tried to communicate with Ryan through psychic communication, she encountered the backlash of an unknown anti-psychic device on the Indomitable Truth—if she had the physique of a mortal psychic, she might be killed in an instant. Its backlash kills.

However, this had almost no effect on the Primarch, but it also affected Elaine's psionic communication to a certain extent.

So much so that she had no choice but to unilaterally pass on some messages that could prove that the 'primarch is still alive'.

"What we have to do now is to pray that our brothers will be merciful."

Elaine said helplessly.

Not all Primarchs are as easy to communicate and approachable as Horus, and this is not the first time Elaine has encountered this type of Primarch—such as Perturabo, getting along with the Iron Lord Time events are still memories that Elaine does not want to mention too much.

"But, don't we have nothing to do!? This is not the front line of the Great Crusade, and those traces that symbolize Iron Man's activities—are they really that urgent!?"

"I'm not going to question my father's authority over the 'AI ban', Lorgar. I've never met Lion—nor what kind of Primarch he is, but these actions of his...maybe have something special about him. Even if this is your home planet...Although I don't understand his action of launching the cyclone torpedo, the traces of the Iron Man's activities are indeed the joint responsibility of you and me. Do everything that can be done, Fulfilling one's responsibilities within the limits of one's abilities—that's the best way."

There was a little sadness in Elaine's words.

Obviously, even in this era of the Great Crusade when endless wars have not spread to the entire galaxy, the crises that inhabit all parts of the galaxy should not be underestimated.

"...Damn. I don't want to question my father's meaning, but I can't accept Ryan's approach... My legion still needs Colchis, and Colchis still needs me. The new life of the Word Bearers should have begun here ..."

Lorgar anxiously tried to argue with Elaine, he didn't understand what Iron Man's activities symbolized - but if his home planet was also destroyed in a sudden destruction, then the perfect city destroyed by himself What does it represent?
His incompetence?His cowardice?His potential mutiny?

Lorgar firmly believed that if Colchis was destroyed by the First Order while still under the Emperor's surveillance, the stain on the Word Bearers would never be washed away.

This is simply unacceptable to Lorgar. Although his vision has been completely opened up by Elaine, and he can directly see the many malices in the long river of fate, it does not mean that he does not care about the relationship between himself and the legion at all. reputation and safety.

The appearance of the Iron Man, the arrival of the First Legion, and one after another emergency incidents have almost completely shattered Lorgar's original plan. If Colchis is really destroyed because of this sudden incident, then the Word Bearers will return to the Great Crusade. The process will be greatly delayed.

This is something every Primarch cannot tolerate.

But the only good thing is that there is no shadow of chaos in these events—or he didn't notice it at all.

Regarding Lorgar's anxiety, Elaine was fully aware of what he was worried about, but she didn't directly tell her, but continued with the many busy tasks at hand.

"You're taking things for granted, Lorgar. Not all battles will be as smooth as the 'surrender' experienced by the Word Bearers, and not all enemies will be bowed to the teachings of Imperial truth."

"In these days...we are only carrying out the most basic war plans in the major cities. Even if the mobilization has already begun, you and I have seen the war potential of Colchis. And we haven't even found any traces of the enemy yet, After the space-time fluctuations, the desert area is completely unobservable-this means that if those existences attack us, we don't even have time to warn."

"These existences have been considered by my father to be an extremely dangerous taboo, and they come from the dark technology age tens of thousands of years ago - unknown technologies and weapons that have been lost, the terrible ability to tear reason and destroy cognition, In a way...they are as dangerous as the horrors we are about to face, and even the Primarchs and the Legions Astartes risk defeat."

"This is the most important home planet for you and the Word Bearers. I sympathize with this... and when I learned of Iron Man's recovery, I did my best to prepare for the bitter battle ahead."

"But, in any case—and please be prepared, whether or not Lane drops the Torpedo Torpedo, whether or not Colchis is doomed in the ensuing Great War, or whether the Legion of the Word Bearers is in this battle It hurts a lot."

"These are the inevitable 'prices' before ushering in victory."

As Elaine's tone became more indifferent, she tore off her sleeve, revealing her prosthetic right arm made of pure gold.

The bruise of a Legion Astartes, the dismemberment of a Primarch.

That was the price she paid for fighting against those disorderly fates and winning accordingly.

She lifted the veil from the future and saw only annihilation.

And in these days, the salvation that Elaine bestowed on Lorgar was not the dawn before darkness—it was the last dusk before the sun set.

The last gasp before the Ruinstorm is over, and the tide of pain forged by the deep night will sweep the galaxy.

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