The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Just as Morganna was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, Veronica came up with a solution. Because there was an Isha shrine near the Arkworld that had already lit the main sacrificial spirit brazier, she could use her divine power to open a small Wraithgate. However, only small aircraft could pass through the Wraithgate; warships could not. Moreover, it was located in the Eye of Terror, where the veil was extremely thin, and the gaze of the great enemy was almost omnipresent. For ordinary Aeldari, their strength would be greatly suppressed. Relying on Morganna alone would definitely not be enough to defeat an entire Chaos warband and a daemonic legion.

Therefore, someone had to be sent to assist Morganna. However, sending ordinary Aeldari warriors would not be very effective and would only increase casualties. Furthermore, Veronica could not maintain the Wraithgate for too long, which meant that once they passed through, there would be no further support until Autunsa was pulled out of the quagmire of war and re-established contact with the royal court.

After much deliberation, Veronica finally decided to send the Phoenix Guard to accompany Morganna. Sosi Hyun had previously conveyed to Duran that, apart from himself, only Veronica could dispatch them within the entire royal court.

Duran gladly accepted the order and immediately gathered a hundred Phoenix Guard from the "Azure Crystal Fire" war host—a war host being an organizational structure within the Phoenix Guard, with a hundred Guards forming a war host.

Morganna also summoned all the bishops of the Dark Reaper shrines. Subsequently, the team departed in four Vampire Raiders through the Wraithgate opened by Veronica, venturing deep into the Eye of Terror, heading towards the now-motionless Autunsa. At that time, the situation was already critical. A third of the Arkworld had fallen. The Khorne champion was well aware that as long as they breached the crystal dome where the Infinity Circuit was located, this behemoth would be a dead fish. Therefore, from the beginning, they had concentrated all their efforts on launching a fierce attack on this location. The warriors of Autunsa could only struggle to hold on, with the corpses of both sides piling up like mountains around the crystal dome.

At the critical moment, the Dark Reapers descended from the sky, unleashing their fury on the enemy with their Reaper launchers. However, the Bloodthirsters were aggressive and single-mindedly focused on destroying the crystal dome. The Khorne champion led his subordinates, closely following this "siege hammer" in a fierce charge.

The Daemon Prince, on the other hand, was attracting the Arkworld's attention in another direction. It attempted to attack the creche, forcing the warriors of Autunsa to divert a third of their forces to stop this insidious and cunning villain.

Autunsa's forces were indeed scattered, but in reality, the invaders were also scattered.

Duran immediately seized the opportunity presented by the enemy's dispersal. He did not rush to land immediately, but circled above the prey like a falcon, determining the direction of the enemy's offensive and the main leaders before ordering the Phoenix Guard to attack.

In an instant, boundless flames enveloped the skies above the Autunsa Arkworld, forming a giant burning phoenix, which then crashed down amidst howling winds.

The residents of Autunsa were shocked; they had never seen such a sight. The intensity of the psychic energy that erupted shook the seer council of the Arkworld to its core, let alone the Chaos servants.

As the giant fire phoenix swept through the daemonic legion, turning the Bloodletters and cultists into ashes, a war banner fluttered in the flames. Embroidered on it was a burning phoenix wing and a burning blade. This banner was suspended behind a majestic warrior clad in ornate diamond-gold armor of an ancient design, wearing a towering winged helmet, and wielding a phoenix-headed halberd, with two wings of burning psychic energy gathered on either side.

Duran swooped down like an arrow, directly targeting the Bloodthirster. The furious Khorne Greater Daemon also reacted, turning around to swing its battleaxe and lash out with its whip.

However, its whip only shattered the afterimage of the flames left behind by the other party. The moment the holy flame blade landed, it severed the daemon's wrist holding the whip. As the Greater Daemon raised its axe to chop down, Duran instead charged towards the opponent, dodging the giant axe by a hair's breadth. Then, with a leap, the halberd in his hand drew a graceful arc wrapped in flames, and the head of the Greater Daemon, still wide-eyed with rage, rolled off its ash-spewing neck.

Duran barely paused before immediately rushing towards the stunned Khorne champion. The old veteran from the World Eaters immediately reacted, raising his twin-linked chainaxe and charging towards the opponent.

With just one strike, Duran knocked away the opponent's weapon, then, like a ghost, moved to the opponent's side with incredible speed, slamming the butt of his halberd into the opponent's face, knocking off the champion's helmet and shattering several steel teeth. He then kicked the champion against the wall, shattering the armor on his chest in the process.

Duran did not kill this guy, because such a thing deserved an end more terrifying than death—the Eternal Court had a special way of dealing with Chaos servants who had committed great crimes, which was to send them to Commorragh through certain secret channels, where they would enjoy things more terrifying than their gods.

As for the Daemon Prince, it realized that the situation was not right and immediately wanted to run, but Morganna's fury had already found it. The Phoenix Lord unleashed the firepower equivalent to a small warship, washing its rotting flesh with a hail of bullets, quickly blasting it into nothing. As for those Chaos Space Marines, they were annihilated one by one by the Phoenix Guard. Not to mention running, most of them didn't even have a chance to fight back.

An invasion was thus eliminated. The residents of Autunsa were still in shock, not knowing what had happened. However, a long life of war had made them suspicious and cautious, and they were strongly wary of the sudden appearance of unfamiliar forces, even surrounding the Phoenix Guard instead.

Fortunately, Morganna promptly revealed her identity. After learning that this was the Phoenix Lord who had left their homeland for many years, the residents of Autunsa finally burst into tears of joy. This was the first time they had truly established contact with other compatriots, which meant that they were no longer alone. This loneliness had almost pushed the entire Arkworld to the brink of despair.

Afterwards, Morganna conveyed a lot of information to the Arkworld, including the current situation in the galaxy, the current state of Aeldari society, and the reconstruction and rise of the Eternal Court, and also explained the special identity of Sosi Hyun as the Phoenix King.

After the initial surprise, the residents of Autunsa accepted everything, because compared to the suffering and war they had experienced, all of this was nothing. To survive, they had given up many things, even children had to take up arms, let alone ethereal racial vanity. Survival had become the spiritual core of all Autunsa residents.

Therefore, when Duran extended an invitation to Autunsa, their seer council accepted it almost without hesitation. The next question was how to get the Arkworld out of the Eye of Terror.

In fact, there was no choice. They could only go through the "front door," which was the Cadian Gate on the human Imperium's side.

Well, then the question arises, how to get an Arkworld out of the defense network that the Imperium has surrounded the Cadian Gate with three layers inside and three layers outside?

After all, for the Imperium, a Chaos warship running out of the Cadian Gate is the same as an Aeldari Arkworld running out, and they will definitely immediately mobilize the fleet to encircle and annihilate it.