The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Since the owner of the items had spoken, the wise men could not say much and could only offer their prices.

Afterward, Sorshian retrieved all the data slates and asked the wise men to wait for 18 hours. After 18 hours, he would send letters to the preferred buyers to finalize the purchase plan.

However, just 3 hours later, a wise man from Yellow Springs Eight secretly arrived at the Space Marine Chapter Monastery of the Star Knights.

"Greetings, Chapter Master Sorshian. I hope I am not disturbing you at this hour."

"Of course not. Wise Man Epsilon, I am delighted that you accepted the invitation."

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In the spacious secondary reception hall of the monastery fortress's main spire, a Mechanicus wise man wearing a long robe that was black on the inside and red on the outside stood before Sorshian. The unique meaning of this robe was only understood by the wise men of Yellow Springs Eight—it symbolized that this wise man was a member of the Alien Affairs faction's secret council.

As an internal faction of the Adeptus Mechanicus that studies and even applies alien technology, the priests and wise men of the Alien Affairs faction are mostly lone wolves who rarely form organizations. However, on Yellow Springs Eight, alien research is almost a semi-public secret. Priests from Yellow Springs Eight seem to be secretly conducting alien research throughout the galaxy. Therefore, an organized Alien Affairs faction has naturally formed within the forge world. As for whether this counts as tech-heresy, the Inquisition and Mars are currently in the "investigation" stage, and this investigation has lasted for nearly five thousand years.

All of this is thanks to Terra. Because Yellow Springs Eight's military supplies are crucial to the Astra Militarum, when the High Lords' Council could no longer suppress the heretical reputation of Yellow Springs Eight, they decreed that the Yellow Springs Eight forge world was very important and should not be interfered with.

The High Lords may have been acting out of practical political and military considerations, but the Ordo Xenos did not think so. In mid-M36, under the leadership of three Grand Inquisitors of the Ordo Xenos, dozens of Deathwatch kill teams launched an invasion of Yellow Springs Eight under the guise of "investigating the disappearance of Eldar seers in the vicinity." The Yellow Springs Eight forge world was forced to take drastic measures to deal with the Deathwatch kill teams.

At the same time, in order to erase their actions, the Alien Affairs faction of the Yellow Springs Eight forge world took a series of secret attack measures, including destroying or modifying files in the Department of Internal Affairs related to Yellow Springs Eight's research on alien technology, and even hacking into the Inquisition's data system to tamper with files related to Yellow Springs Eight, using various means to ensure that all information from Terra and the Inquisition was confused.

This further angered the Ordo Xenos. A fierce secret war broke out between the Deathwatch and radical tech-priests. The final result of this war is unknown, but what everyone could see was that the then-Director-General of the Yellow Springs Eight forge world announced his retirement and seclusion to focus on "personal research," while the three Grand Inquisitors ended up with one dead, one wounded, and one missing. The Deathwatch also announced that they would never guarantee the "safety" of any priest from Yellow Springs Eight again. After this, the Alien Affairs faction became cautious and formed a secret council. Those wise men who studied alien technology secretly gathered together, implemented safer and more secretive operational rules, and even formed special action teams to seize and search for alien creations to achieve their mysterious goals, preventing unorganized activities from causing huge trouble again.

After the auction ended, Sorshian sent an invitation to Yellow Springs Eight, and they wisely sent an Alien Affairs faction wise man.

After all, if Sorshian wanted to talk to them about something in private, it would definitely be related to alien technology.

"Yellow Springs Eight provided us with a lot of help during the Chapter's reconstruction. I have always believed that if one wants to find a forge world that can most efficiently study those alien enemies, then it must be Yellow Springs Eight. I invited you here because I wanted to talk about some topics that other wise men may not be able to understand."

Hearing Sorshian say this, the wise man nodded.

"Your attention makes us proud."

"Regarding the Necrons, we have obtained some more important information. This is a race from the distant past, about sixty million years ago. Due to some unknown changes, they chose to slumber in tombs made of blackstone. This race was once very prosperous, so their numbers are also extremely large, mostly concentrated in the Ultima Segmentum and the edge of the Tempestus Segmentum. Now they seem to be awakening on a large scale. That's why I have always emphasized that they will be a huge threat."

The wise man stood there, seemingly lost in thought, or perhaps analyzing. After a moment, he said in a slightly magnetic mechanical voice:

"It seems that you are very concerned about this alien race. Yellow Springs Eight has also sent many investigation teams to the eastern border of the Ultima Segmentum, the most active areas of the Necrons, to conduct research, but the losses have been huge. Currently, there is still no definite concept of the scale of the Necron awakening. What do you think is their approximate scale now?"

Sorshian raised his hand and summoned a servo-skull holding a flexible screen. Then, a slightly flickering star map appeared on the screen. Sorshian used his hand to mark several locations on it.

"The Necron race's clans, or rather, countries, generally call themselves dynasties. Currently, as far as I know, these areas are all occupied by Necron dynasties, especially here, the eastern edge of the Ultima Segmentum, there is an extremely powerful Necron dynasty, called the Sautekh."

"Ah, here, I know. I once went to the edge of this area for...archeology. It is indeed a very dangerous place. I lost half of my Skitarii."

But then the wise man changed the subject.

"But these areas are too far from the forge world. It is difficult for Yellow Springs Eight to stop the expansion of these aliens. However, we will continue to monitor the alien activities in these areas."

Sorshian nodded.

"I have reserved an extra gift for Yellow Springs Eight."

Soon, the star map on the screen disappeared, and then images of warship wreckage and equipment, as well as some well-preserved Necron devices, appeared.

"The enemy's single-soldier gauss weapons have absolute destructive power against power armor, but our bolters may not be able to kill the enemy with one hit. Although it is not entirely correct to say so, there is no doubt that our technology is far behind them. Yellow Springs Eight has a deep scientific research foundation. I hope you can allow humanity to have weapons that are equal to the enemy, instead of always having to use the lives of soldiers to offset the enemy's technological advantages."

"Chapter Master Sorshian truly possesses extraordinary vision and development thinking. If half of the High Lords were as enlightened as you, humanity would have conquered the galaxy with the most powerful weapons long ago, instead of now guarding a leaky broken house and shivering in the cold wind."