The Emperor’s Angel of Death

"You think you can defeat us like this?"

An'lu's fist immediately slammed hard on the table.

"I have never seen such an arrogant race! They are even more arrogant than the Hrud! Do they think we are just fish to be slaughtered?!"

An'ke didn't reply, just picked up his cup and took a sip, while An'xi's 'expression' became very unsightly.

An'lu stood up abruptly.

"The Ke'shan will never yield! Neither the Orks nor the Tyranids have ever made our house yield! We still have tens of millions of troops! We still have planetary surface defenses! If they want to come, then this will be the invaders' graveyard! The people of Ke'shan would rather die as jade than survive as broken tiles! We must bring this firm will to the people! Instead of panicking!"

An'ke put down his cup and said slowly:

"Why would they bother playing hide-and-seek with us on the ground? Their weapons can directly erase the planet. An'lu, do you think they want to occupy our world? Dying for a noble cause is not something to be proud of, let alone something your 'people' should be responsible for."

An'ke's words made An'lu's eyes widen, but before he could speak, An'xi spoke first.

"An'ke, what do you think we should do now?"

"Order the surrounding fleets to disperse, send the coordinates of the planet marked 'Viviya' to other colonial worlds, and continue to spread them. At the same time, start evacuating residents, leaving only soldiers, to show our stance."

"What stance?"

"They can destroy the Ke'shan House, but they will also bear an eternal blood debt for it. This will be an eternal war, and our compatriots will continuously launch attacks on that world until one side is completely destroyed."

An'xi stared at An'ke, pondered for a moment, and said softly:

"This is a gamble."

"Maybe."

"Then what might the other side do?"

"Either destroy us, or send their emissaries."

An'xi clenched his hands tightly and lowered his head, seemingly not wanting others to see his face.

After a long while, when he raised his head, his eyes became firm.

"Let's do it!"

Soon, the Ke'shan House world began to organize a large-scale evacuation of residents from the planet, and the small fleets gathered around the star system also began to return to their home ports, sending out strings of messages to the surrounding colonies without any concealment using high-power transmitters.

Although things were in full swing outside, the atmosphere inside the Ethereal Council was very tense. They were waiting, waiting for the other side's next move.

The result came quickly. In just a few hours, a message was sent to the T'au.

The Eldar Empire's Eternal Court will send a ship carrying emissaries to Ke'shan. Any attack will be regarded as a signal to start the war immediately.

Very simple and straightforward, but it made the Ethereals breathe a sigh of relief. Only An'ke remained calm, even his eyes became more serious, because he knew that the real war had begun—

A Dragon-class escort ship detached from the Eldar fleet and arrived in the orbit of Ke'shan at an extremely high speed. This speed caught the Ethereals off guard, and they could only rush to the capital plaza of the home world to wait. In order to avoid unnecessary panic, this meeting was kept secret, and most T'au residents did not know that the enemy who was making them flee had arrived in the planet's orbit.

Immediately afterwards, a Vampire Raider took off from the escort ship, quickly entered the atmosphere, and arrived directly above their prosperous capital without being detected by any of the T'au's air defense weapons. It was not until it entered low altitude that it triggered the air defense alarm.

"Our detection equipment can't even scan such a large aircraft."

Standing on the magnificent square located two thousand meters above the city, An'xi looked at the hovering forward-swept wing aircraft above, and couldn't help but sigh. This thing was about the size of a Tiger Shark, but it flew silently and as fast as lightning. Its structure seemed to belong to the kind of fragile, elegant style. The outer shell material didn't look like metal, but it was able to let the most heavily defended city in the House world be completely unaware until the other party lowered its altitude before it was discovered.

"It seems that their technology is really beyond our imagination."

Afterwards, the Vampire Raider fell gracefully like a fallen leaf and gently stopped on the square, still silently.

When the transport ship opened its tail hatch and extended the ramp, the Ethereals, under the protection of their honor guard, more than fifty XV8 battle suits, clenched their staffs.

However, the next second, what walked out of the hatch was not the Eldar they imagined, with narrow faces, tall figures, and slender pointed ears.

"What!"

Many Ethereals exclaimed in surprise, but An'xi just narrowed his eyes.

Three Archon females wearing gorgeous metallic silk robes walked out of the ramp slowly. The one in the lead held a scroll in her hand. It was not until they appeared that a 10-person guard composed of 5 Dark Reapers and Howling Banshees followed closely.

After stopping about ten meters away from the Ethereals, the Archon female representative made a pleasant but contemptuous voice—as the T'au's sworn enemies, they naturally understood the T'au language.

"Base and lowly race, T'au, We, who honor the Eldar Empire's God-Emperor, the master of both the material and soul worlds, the Eternal Queen's husband, Phoenix King's order, come to declare to you that your race has launched an unprovoked war against our territory, slaughtered our people, burned mountains and forests, and committed countless crimes. The situation is so tragic that both humans and gods are indignant! I personally lead the royal army to destroy the fierce and stubborn, and the divine punishment descends, and the thieves will die. The ships and boats will be set on fire, and the armor will be piled on the high mountains. Now the atmosphere is completely swept away, and there is no trace left. It should have taken advantage of the victory to pursue and destroy its nest and destroy its species, but the Eternal Queen believes that too many people have died in this battle and does not want to increase the killing, giving you the opportunity to repent and make amends, so don't miss it, otherwise, when the royal army arrives, you will all be turned into powder!"

After saying this, even these Ethereals who had undergone long-term spiritual sublimation and self-cultivation could not help but feel anger burning in their hearts. This was not just arrogance, it was simply treating them as corpses!

The other party was not here to negotiate, but to persuade them to surrender!

But fortunately, their cultivation was still there. An'xi didn't speak, and neither did they.

Then the Archon female representative opened the scroll and read out the armistice treaty personally written by Sochyan.

In fact, the core is three points—

Admit fault, cede land, pay compensation.

The first point is to make the Ethereals publicly admit that the Ke'shan House was the wrong party in this war, and the Eternal Court was forced to carry out self-defense counterattacks. The Ke'shan House world must send a high-ranking Ethereal from the Ethereal Council to Rillarsus Kingdom to kneel and apologize to the victims.

The second point, strictly speaking, cannot be called ceding land. Sochyan did not want the T'au to give up their colonies. It was just that a star system originally very close to the Savage Kingdom, which was designated by the Ke'shan House as a future resource development point, had to be transferred to the Archons and recognized that it belonged to the Eternal Court's affiliated country, and they were not allowed to carry out any military hostile activities against the Archons—the T'au did not have any colonies there, only a few space stations and monitoring stations, but the territory did belong to the Ke'shan House.

The third point is that the Ke'shan House must pay compensation for the losses caused by this war, mainly in the form of various resources and equipment—just in time, the three vassal races that had surrendered before needed to be rearmed. The T'au's weapons had good versatility, and with a little modification, they could be used by the Ulumeathic, Drashian, and Kikanti people. Especially the battle suits, the Ulumeathic people's physical characteristics were very similar to those of the Fire Caste, and they had similar equipment themselves. The T'au's battle suits were obviously much more advanced than their own researched "aviation suits", and this race had great potential to become the Royal Court's gold medal thugs. They only needed to slightly improve the structure of the cockpit, and battle suits like the XV8 should be wearable.