The Emperor’s Angel of Death

Chapter 3230: The Legacy of Supreme Varia

"Supreme Varia, isn't that…"

After a brief two seconds of thought, Sochian nodded with sudden realization.

"So it's that forge world."

Having crammed the historical knowledge of the old Iron Belt, Sochian was no stranger to the name Supreme Varia, or rather, this forge world was also a participant in this tragic Mechanicus civil war, but it was a real rebel faction, and had a deep feud with Grea.

He turned and glanced at the way he came and the Titans lined up on both sides.

"28 machines... 14 Warhounds, 12 Reavers, 2 Warlords... It can be seen that the Piercer should be a legion that prefers to use light formations and hunting formations, and that gate should not be the main entrance."

28 Titans, according to the Titan Legion's organization, this is almost a complete detachment, which sounds incredible, that a forge world would hide so many Titans.

But as Sochian's understanding of the various forge worlds deepened, he realized that this was not an isolated case, but a common phenomenon, and it could even be said that after the outbreak of the Great Rebellion, the official number of machines belonging to the forge world Titan Legions and the actual number of machines appearing in the war did not match, whether it was the loyalist side or the rebel side, they all had their own hidden strength, including extra Titans.

The reason for the formation of this "convention" is very simple, in fact, even the loyalist side, for the most part, had the same thoughts as Supreme Varia, no matter how much they whitewashed it afterwards, in reality very few forge worlds were truly willing to become part of the Empire, accepting the orders of a distant human master, so everyone was making plans for the future, and Mars's barbaric management style fueled this separatism and isolationism of the various forge worlds, so it formed a situation where everyone was secretly preparing for war, although it was not certain who the opponent might be.

It can be seen that even in the Great Crusade era, which was called a golden age by later historians, a rebellion storm of centrifugal force was quietly brewing, many things were accidental, and many things were inevitable.

After pondering for a moment, Sochian turned around and pointed to another door at the end of the bridge.

"This, should be where the Titans went out."

Then he turned to the sages and said:

"Then the follow-up will be handed over to you professionals, I await your good news."

When the sages dispersed to attend to their own affairs and opened the second door, Sochian stopped the sage of Alathimos.

"Sage, I need to ask you about a historical issue, Supreme Varia, after the end of the rebellion, the ending I saw was that it was destroyed, but this is undoubtedly a very vague conclusion, because it doesn't make sense for the Mechanicus, eliminating the enemy does not require completely destroying the entire forge world, but in reality Supreme Varia has indeed become a dead planet, almost nothing is left on it, so... what exactly happened?"

After a few seconds of silence, perhaps searching for information, the sage then whispered in response:

"Lord, your intuition is very accurate, but what is truly recorded is a very strange thing."

"What thing?"

"Supreme Varia, it disappeared."

"Disappeared? Isn't the planet still there?"

"At the end of the war, when the armies of Grea broke into the defense perimeter of Supreme Varia, they were not resisted, only many death worlds were suspended in the void, the fortresses were empty, and on the main star, the forge cities and furnaces of the forge world had disappeared without a trace, only the industrial ruins connecting them remained on the surface, the first troops to land on the surface claimed that they did not detect any life signals, only saw the Titan shells of the Dawn Stars Legion that had been destroyed in previous battles. The postures of these shells looked like they were distorted by great pain, and the frames supporting them formed even more bizarre patterns, as for how Supreme Varia left, and why, no one knows."

Sochian thought for a while, and then made a guess.

"Witchcraft, or rather, warp trickery."

"Yes, our past scholars have also speculated like this, the rebels also used blasphemous witchcraft on a large scale during the war."

"So…"

Sochian looked at the crimson Warlord Titan again.

"...We have not found an unowned treasure, but a stock forgotten by the owner, the key is that this owner should still exist."

Then he dismissed the other party and called Ditrian to a secret place.

".About Supreme Varia, Ditrian, do you know anything?"

"Chapter Master, I know a little."

"From the Eye of Chaos?"

"Yes, after they escaped into the Eye of Terror, they established an organization called the Varia Conclave, settling on a lava-filled daemon world, using the forge cities and furnaces they took away to build a huge fortress called the Anvil of Vengeance, ruled by Maldonado Stanislav, a cruel and greedy fellow, acting as one of the many arms dealers in the Eye of Terror, and has traded with many warbands."

"Understood, go and do your work, remember to remind them to block the news, I don't want to attract some unnecessary trouble."

"Yes."

After Ditrian left, Sochian walked back to the light, thinking while pacing on the wide metal bridge, at this time a large number of servitors and robots had poured in, starting to inspect everywhere, and the sky was full of servo-skulls, a lively scene, Sochian could even feel that kind of joy.

But he is not as excited as he was at the beginning, because he has many questions to think about.

A hidden warehouse that preserves a large number of Titans, is likely to have been established by Supreme Varia after being discovered by the Empire, Supreme Varia did not intend to submit to the Empire at first, and even had fierce armed conflicts with the Empire, and finally the Raven Guard Legion and Grea's Titan Legion forced them to submit, after which the forge world was forced to sign the Redemption Ordinance, limiting the number of Titans, with a maximum of only 100-120 god engines, but judging from the subsequent rebellion, Supreme Varia had long planned to resist the Empire again.

Now the question is, did they really forget about this place, or are they not planning to take it away for the time being?

The warp storm more than three thousand years ago was actually a bit suspicious, Sochian suspected that this place was not forgotten, but for some reason those remnants who fell into the Dark Mechanicus did not intend to take it away.

He wasn't afraid of the other party, in fact, even if the other party knew, he would definitely take this batch of Titans, the problem is Volistad here, if the people from the Dark Mechanicus came and found that the things were taken away, they would definitely vent their anger on the residents of this planet, after all, he is not a Mechanicus sage, he can just leave after taking the things, it is estimated that they didn't even care about this planet, if it wasn't for Sochian pressing them down, the Mechanicus' style might not even bother with the Orks, and just take the things and leave.

Of course, it is also possible that the remnants of Supreme Varia really forgot about this place.