How can a retired savior be considered retired if he drops to 40,000?

"I thought it was inside Medusa." Debbie frowned in confusion, but in a blink of an eye, he dropped the question, "Then I will go to Mr. Ferros to plan the voyage. What is the name of the planet?"

"Jerrick," Ferrus replied nonchalantly.

After exchanging useful information, the brief conversation ended. But what the Iron Hand Primarch did not notice was that Debit, who was very familiar with ancient human mythology, had a subtle change in his demeanor when he heard the name of this planet.

I hope this is a false premonition. He told himself so, and turned back to get out of the wall of Astartes.

Miu (no more)

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 188 Who came up with these names?

When Debit found Malkan Ferros, the latter was meeting with some other Iron Fathers.

Judging from the number of participants and the equipment, this should be an informal small meeting, but as for what they were discussing, Debbie, who was standing at the door, had no idea.

For the Iron Hands, it is rare for the parties to communicate directly through language, such as the meeting convened by Fujimaru Ritsuka on the Destroyer Claw. The most typical example is the Iron Council that will be convened in the Eye of Medusa when the Chapter encounters an important event that requires decision-making: the forty-one Iron Fathers present - no doubt, they have undergone sufficient neural enhancement surgery and implant enhancements in their previous service careers, so that they can directly connect to the brain link for direct brain signal communication and withstand an incredible amount of data. In the meeting, they will connect themselves to the huge Iron Throne through direct spinal sockets and neural connection helmets, directly colliding with the thoughts of others in their consciousness, and a lot of debates and mutual coordination will be completed at an incredibly fast speed.

And now, in this casual-looking room in front of Debit, with no special equipment, five Iron Fathers including Malkan Ferros and a member who was obviously from the Mechanicum stood quietly in a circle. From the perspective of normal humans without any enhancements, they seemed to be just standing there doing nothing, but the information exchange was obviously being carried out quickly among the six people through some kind of wireless transmission protocol.

Debbie thought for a moment, picked up the data pad again, typed two lines on it, walked silently to the direction where Ferros was facing, and raised his hand to say what he wanted to say.

Almost the next second after he did this, everyone in the room turned their heads towards him almost simultaneously. If someone else were to experience this uniform gaze, they might feel strongly uneasy, but Debbie was Debbie after all: he was not moved at all.

The two lines he wrote on the datapad were: "What is the relative position of the planet Jerick to Medusa? What is the maintenance status of the "Iron Fist"?

Malkan Ferros made a mechanical sound from inside his helmet that probably meant "sigh", and then asked: "The Primarch's mission?"

Debbie nodded.

"My Lord, do you want to leave the Medusa Galaxy in the near future?" There was obvious disapproval in Ferros' question.

"The Treasury of Mimir," Debbie explained briefly.

Among the participants, the one who was obviously from the Mechanicus immediately made some sharp beeps of unknown meaning, which made all the other Iron Fathers look in the direction of the person involved again. After a few seconds, the beeps gradually subsided, and the Iron Fathers had obviously made some decisions in the communication link that Debit could not perceive. Ferros left the meeting directly and took Debit away from the room. The remaining five people seemed to have other things to discuss.

Debbie didn't ask what they were discussing, and Ferros didn't say anything either. Both parties unanimously regarded the above as irrelevant information and put it aside, and started to explain the next question directly: "Regarding the preparation of the Iron Fist, the current estimate is that it will take another 85.68 Terra standard hours. If everything goes well."

The Iron Fist, the flagship of the Tenth Legion during the Great Crusade, was a Queen of Glory-class ship given by the Emperor to Ferrus Manus, and the undisputed holy relic of the Iron Hands. At the end of the Great Crusade, when the already corrupted Fulgrim came to persuade Ferrus to join the Warmaster, this huge battleship had already been damaged and had to return to the Medusa Ring for repairs. When the Iron Hands Primarch led his army to the Istavan system, this magnificent warship still failed to be successfully restored to the point where it could be put into battle.

At that time, no one would have thought that after she stopped at the star ring, she would not set sail again for ten thousand years.

The reopening of this long-sealed warship is also one of the collateral effects of the "Original Return" on the Iron Hands Chapter. Regardless of the feelings of the people who are carrying out these tasks, the work itself has been well advanced - these emotional issues are what Fujimaru Ritsuka will take the initiative to care about, and for Debit and the Iron Hands Chapter Brothers, they only care about the final result.

"What are the factors that may cause 'unsuccessful' situations?" Debbie asked as he trotted behind Ferros who was walking forward at a brisk pace.

"It's a clan dispute." Feiros didn't sound like it mattered. "Don't worry about it. It's our own internal problem. I will try to coordinate and resolve it."

"So, about Jerick's position--"

"--That's the problem." Ferros sighed, "I don't know either. I also asked the other people who were present just now, and at least none of the six of us knew."

"......?" Debit looked confused. "But, Mr. Ferrus wouldn't build the Mimir Treasury in a place no one knows about... Wait a minute."

"That's what you think," Ferros agreed. "My guess is that because it was the location of Mimir's Vault, it was deliberately erased from the records and lost from the Chapter's collective memory over the millennia."

Debbie seemed to want to turn around and leave. "That means Mr. Ferrus is probably the only one who remembers the coordinates of this planet? But that must be data from 10,000 years ago. In the process of celestial movement, 10,000 years may not mean anything, or it may be a long time enough for a planet to be destroyed. Even I cannot use this to guarantee that the route to Jerick is 100% safe."

"Don't be so hasty - I'm just saying that it disappeared from the records, but the planet itself must still be there." Ferros said, "Perhaps it has been renamed to an inconspicuous name, or perhaps only a meaningless number is left. It should not have any development value, so the Chapter's activities in nearby star regions in the past ten thousand years have never been particularly noticed, but since it exists in the Medusa Sector, it must be recorded in the Chapter's star map."

Ferros continued to move forward, his ultimate goal was the archive room in the fortress that contained the star map data. But just as he led Debit through the nameplates of various archive rooms in the corridor, the latter suddenly stopped in front of another door marked "Historical Archives" in Low Gothic:

"Could this room contain records from ten thousand years ago, from the Great Crusade?" Debbie asked Ferros.

The Iron Father had to stop and answer with confusion: "Similar records certainly exist, but they are not placed in such a 'peripheral' data room. Most of those ancient historical records are regarded as holy relics and are specially preserved by the think tanks. What do you want to find from them?"

"The history of how 'Jerrick' was incorporated into the Empire," Debbie replied. "Perhaps it will record the origin of the name itself. In this universe, any 'name' carries a strong symbolic meaning, and the name 'Jerrick' obviously comes from an ancient myth - I am a little worried that it really symbolizes something."

He paused, then added, "Just like the Medusa Galaxy, or the Stheneros Galaxy. If you use the local dialect of Medusa to name all the planets in the galaxy, it's easy to find that the names of these planets all come from another ancient myth, and some of the symbolic meanings, I think, have been fulfilled."

Not understanding the connection, Ferros frowned under his helmet in confusion.

Meow (six o'clock)

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 189 Ready to go

"Thoosa, currently used as a research station of the Mechanicus, is also a half-human, half-fish fairy in mythology. As the lover of the sea god, she gave birth to a Cyclops. The name of the death world Graea may come from the three gray sisters Graiai, who were old when they were born and lived in a cave without sun or moon. The three of them shared one eye and one tooth. The mining world Skylla is obviously a transcription of Scylla, who was a water nymph who was cursed and turned into a six-headed twelve-legged monster in mythology. Ladon is a hundred-headed dragon in mythology who is responsible for guarding the golden apples. Hesperos is——"

"Wait, wait," Ferros hurriedly stopped. For him, he could just repeat Debbie's long speech word for word, but it would be meaningless - he lacked too much prior information and could not extract "really useful" information from these words.

"These names may indeed have allusions," Ferros said, "but I don't see what's wrong with that. It's normal to use allusions when naming. It may just be that in the distant past, before the Dark Age of Technology, the human colonists who came here casually flipped through books and named the celestial bodies in this galaxy, and it was passed down in this way. There is no other deep meaning."

"I hold a negative attitude." Debit said, "Even if the person who did it had no deep intention when it was named, things become different after the corresponding name is passed down for a long time. I have previously confirmed with the think tanks on the Claw of Destruction. In this universe, the 'name' itself does have an impact on destiny. This seems to be common sense among psykers."

"I haven't heard of anything like this." The Forge Master, who was obviously not a think tank, hinted at the other party and gave some more specific examples.

"Take Medusa for example," Debbie said straightforwardly. "In mythology, Medusa was originally a beautiful goddess, but after being cursed, she became a terrifying snake-haired monster called Gorgon. I think that even if a lot of these ancient myths have been lost over tens of thousands of years, the name Gorgon must be very familiar to you."

Malkan "Son of the Gorgon" Ferros frowned even more tightly under his helmet: "Our gene father did recognize and use this title for a long time, but its origin is actually..."

"Whatever its origin, I think that this title, which can almost replace his name in many cases, has indeed affected his fate." Debit replied expressionlessly, "In mythology, Gorgon was beheaded by the hero Perseus, and his head was taken away by the hero and dedicated to the god who helped him in the process."

He didn't say what this story was about, but it was impossible for Ferros not to hear it. Under normal circumstances, he would rationally judge it as a coincidence: there were countless soldiers who died by beheading on the battlefield, and it was too common for the enemy to take the head to prove military merit. The isolated case caused by a single incident could not rule out the possibility of accidental occurrence. But it was about his genetic father, and in the past few months he had seen many phenomena that could not be reasonably explained by logic and reason. At this moment, he had to be suspicious driven by emotion.

Unfortunately, Debbie's story was told very grimly, and in this short time, he was ready to return to the original topic: "If this mutual correspondence is true, then the fact that 'Medusa will become a Gorgon' may have some other consequences - but that is not the most important problem we need to solve right now. I still hope to find the files related to 'Jerrick'."

Ferros really wanted to ask what the "other consequences" in the above paragraph were, but he finally sighed and restrained his desire to get to the bottom of it: he began to realize that, at least in this matter, he'd better find a think tank to deal with it.

"Let's go to the Star Map Archives first and get a map of the nearest star region," he said to Debbie, "and then we'll go find Lindrick."

I hope the Iron Hands' chief think tank can give me some good advice on this issue, Ferros thought with a sigh.

-

It is regrettable, but understandable that even the Iron Hands' chief think tank had no impression of the planet's name "Jerrick".

Although thanks to the fuzzy search brought by the wetware part of the servitor, they finally succeeded in finding the relevant records in the vast archives, but the data from ten thousand years ago had indeed become blurred with the passage of time, and from the part that could be interpreted, it seemed that the Iron Hands during the Great Crusade were also indifferent to the situation of the planet itself: the part they finally found was only a few dry lines of description in the battle report, and this could be said to be the blessing of both the God-Emperor and Om Messiah.

This matter should have ended after they successfully calculated which unknown planet "Jerrick" was and determined its coordinates. But Debit was still unwilling to give up and asked Ferrus Manus himself what he remembered about the planet Jerick.

The good news is that under normal circumstances, the Primarch's extraordinary memory will not fade, even after ten thousand years. Ferrus Manus can still clearly recall the situation when he captured Jerick - but the bad news is that in his memory, there is nothing special about the whole incident.

During the Great Crusade, Jerick was a gateway planet to the alien empire, with a particularly outstanding defense force in the entire galaxy. This alien was very good at technology, but unfortunately, it was not as good as the Iron Hands. In Ferrus' memory, it took them a week to break through Jerick's defenses, and a month later they captured the entire galaxy.

Because this galaxy originally belonged to an alien civilization and had no development value left, he cleaned the surfaces of all habitable planets in the galaxy and confirmed that the alien civilization had been completely destroyed, so he simply abandoned it. He only borrowed and significantly transformed the underground facilities that Jerick already had, and redesigned a more rigorous defense system to transform it into a Mimir treasury. During the reconstruction process, nothing worth mentioning happened.

As for the worry that Debit had started, about "the corresponding name affecting the fate", Ferrus himself was quite open-minded. For him, he had already experienced such things as "the war continued after death", "possessing one's own offspring", and "resurrection from the dead". No matter what strange things happened to him, he thought he would not have any strong emotional fluctuations - as for the troubles it might bring, which war could be said to be smooth sailing and not cause any trouble at all?

This matter was shelved because of the will of the Primarch himself, and even Debit did not try to pay attention to it, even though he did have a premonition that something was wrong when he heard the name "Jerrick" not long ago. Nothing major happened for a while afterwards, and everyone was preparing for the "expedition" that was about to take place, until four days later -

After being repaired and inspected, the "Iron Fist" was found to be in normal condition and could leave the port again after ten thousand years.

Miu (no more)

When I looked up information about the Iron Hand's home star system, I decided right then and there: I must start spreading rumors immediately!

Look at you, GW. You are both a joke and a hassle-free person when naming! You have given us fan fiction authors so many excuses to talk nonsense! The planets in the Iron Hand galaxy are almost all sea monsters, and Iron Hand himself is a Gorgon. If Gorgon is placed in the position of a positive character, then the villains in the story are of course the murderer Perseus and the mastermind Athena——(wake up)

I know that this GW is more about Salome, but Salome Fulgrim has been appreciated enough by the fans, so I want to do something different. Anyway, fan fiction is just nonsense, so just have fun and don't take it seriously.

By the way, the fact that the three Medusa sisters are goddesses is a lunar setting.

By the way, Jericho only appears as a name in the information I found, which roughly says "After Mimir's treasury on Medusa was full, Iron Hand built similar facilities in (), Jericho, (), etc." So except for the name being the Jericho everyone thinks of, everything else is made up by me.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 190 You Iron Hands

This is the first time in ten thousand years that the Queen of Glory-class battleship has left the port again, especially under the leadership of the returning Primarch of the Iron Hand. It is reasonable that it should be accompanied by a grand and luxurious departure ceremony of the highest standards.

But before the Iron Fist soared into the void again, apart from the members of the Mechanicus singing the highest-standard binary hymns all the way, which added a sacred and fanatical atmosphere to the departure ceremony, the rest of the process seemed to be similar to the departure of other ships, and was overall unremarkable.

The cause of this was still within the Gorgon's descendants. Although the bombshell news of "Ferus Manus's return" had not been out for long, the descendants of the nearby legions, whether they were mother legions or daughter legions, who could return, sent representatives and gathered again in the fortress monastery on Medusa. But a short month was not enough for them to argue about this matter - even if such a big Ferrus Manus, himself, stood in front of them alive.

During the Great Crusade, Ferrus would have hammered into the ground any brat who dared to yell "I don't believe you are our genetic father" in front of him - in fact, he really wanted to do so now, but after experiencing the 10,000 years of the Webway War, his temper at least seemed much better than before.

Rationally, he could understand the distrust of these descendants who had been separated from him for thousands of years. More than half of the people in this group of iron-shelled heads who were arguing in front of him were just like him. Therefore, emotionally, although he was angry, he couldn't help but be more tolerant of them in the way he handled this matter.

The result of tolerance is the sacrifice of efficiency. To this day, more than half a month has passed since the return of the Destruction Claw and the reappearance of the Primarch in the sight of the entire Chapter. All the clans on Medusa are still quarreling, and even Ferrus has not been able to successfully take over all the power of command and dispatch.

He didn't particularly care about it, after all, the Chapter was still fighting several wars at this moment. Even if he was the Primarch, it was not a wise choice to "change the commander before the run-in period" - not just the battlefield commander, but also the logistics dispatch, supply support, route division, military production and other aspects that matched it. War is a sophisticated and complex machine. Although the direct decision of victory or defeat is the battle of tactics and firepower between the two sides, in order to play the tactics and firepower that can win, it is not only the soldiers and guns on the front line that need to be relied on.

However, even Enkidu found it interesting that although this group of people had different opinions and were arguing over whether "this Ferrus Manus was their genetic father", after the issue of "restarting the Iron Fist" was put on the agenda by the parliament, it was quickly passed unanimously; after Ferrus said that he needed to take a short voyage to a Mimir treasury to retrieve a piece of equipment, a Glorious Queen-class battleship that had been vacant for a long time was almost immediately replenished to full strength.

——What's going on here? If Jill knew about this, she would probably burst out laughing.

Enkidu felt a little depressed, which was rare. Currently, around him on the Iron Fist, there were either the parties involved in the incident who only glared at him and shouted "What do you know, you iron man?", or the local servants and members of the Mechanicus of Medusa who were basically completely unromantic, or the treacherous and unpredictable Debit, or the vehicle spirit who was indifferent to this matter and spent most of the time thinking only about how to improve his killing efficiency. The God-made Weapon now had no place to share the fun, and therefore began to miss Fujimaru Ritsuka very much.

But then again, if Fujimaru Ritsuka were here, this matter probably wouldn't have developed to the current situation.

Another point worth mentioning is that the Iron Fist did not attack alone. Although in Ferrus's own opinion, he just went to an old warehouse where he had been placed and no one had been there for 10,000 years to find something, and it was enough to use an ordinary battle barge with a few troops just in case to do this. But for some reason, even everyone, including Debit, took it for granted that if the Primarch wanted to leave the home planet, he would at least have to invite out his flagship of the past, and then equip it with a suitable escort fleet.

Anyway, when Ferrus himself said that "there was no need to waste resources on such a small matter", the representative of Clan Averni was the first to loudly express his opposition; Clan Rakuan followed closely; Clan Hammonk, contrary to its usual practice, expressed its support for Clan Rakuan's emotional decision; Clan Dofok followed the lead of the Primarch; for some similar but different reasons, Clan Bogus and Clan Dofok chose to advance and retreat together on this issue; although Clan Karagu had some doubts internally about "whether this Gene Father who did not return from the Holy Mountain of Karashu is the Gene Father", they were very concerned about "Ferrus decided not to bring too many troops with him". The Solagu clan did not make a clear statement, but when they heard about this, they were obviously planning to include the location of Mimir's treasury in the protection circle of the Medusa sector; the Volgan and Morag clans, out of purely rational considerations, said that "losing the Primarch again is an unacceptable loss for the chapter", so they joined the escort fleet; and the Gesaka clan still tried to maintain a neutral attitude, but this "neutrality" itself was actually meaningless after everyone else had a unified view, either explicitly or implicitly.

This group even convened the Iron Council for the issue of troop strength and organization, arguing in the style of the Iron Hands for most of the day, until Ferrus himself lost his temper after he could no longer bear it. The roar of the Primarch shook the underground load-bearing structure of the Eye of Medusa, and his descendants reluctantly called off the troops, reducing the number of their own clans in the escort fleet, and leaving space for representatives of the Mechanicus of the Voice of Mars who wanted to participate - even so, when the Iron Fist left the port again after 10,000 years, the escort fleet around her was still able to form a full-strength regiment.

Just like that, this fleet, which no one could tell was "put together in two days", but was really put together in two days, sailed towards Mandeville Point inside the galaxy in a mighty manner.

Meow (six o'clock)

When I wrote this chapter, I really thought, you iron hands (cushioned beating), you iron hands (cushioned beating), you iron hands (cushioned beating).

I really don’t want to write these transitional sections. Why can’t I just write the climax directly… (closes eyes)

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 191 Here We Come

Unexpectedly, nothing went wrong during the entire process of the fleet's navigation in the warp - that is, from departure, jumping into the warp, to navigation, confirming the direction, and then jumping out of the warp and arriving at the target galaxy, during this entire process.

Everything was normal, even normal to the point of being unremarkable. The damage that was inevitable in every warp voyage since the Great Rift opened was also very minor. It was as if they were not advancing in the chaotic, violent, treacherous, and difficult-to-identify warp currents of the dark side of the Empire, but had returned to the Great Crusade era in a trance, an era when the warp was almost calm and the Empire's fleet could sail freely in it.

This fact is even more mysterious considering that the course from Medusa to Jerick is almost directly towards the Eye of Terror.

Various aspects of the fleet have made some interpretations of this phenomenon from their own perspectives. Some believe that this is just a coincidence among coincidences, and some try to find variables in the process of this voyage. There are also some very rare and outrageous speculations, so outrageous that they were eliminated by the Iron Hands themselves before they could be passed to Ferrus' ears.

In fact, the answer is not mysterious. The fact that the warp was calm might be a coincidence, but the navigation was accurate. During the more than half a year he stayed on the Claw of Destruction, Ferrus Manus had successfully replicated a barely usable "Paper Moon" navigation system in the real universe, and installed it on the flagship Iron Fist during the voyage and began to use it.

Of course, compared with the genuine "Plane Moon", it has great deficiencies in observation performance, ease of use, stability and computing power, but for the current empire, it is already good enough. Moreover, as a product of another world, the "Plane Moon" is likely to be a single product, while the "Paper Moon" made entirely based on the empire's technology has the possibility of mass production.

Ferrus judged that there was still room for further optimization of this prototype, and perhaps he would have to wait for a while before he would make it public to the Adeptus Mechanicus that cooperated with the Chapter and instruct them to try to make the relevant STC.

Back to the present: The fleet led by the Iron Fist safely jumped out of the subspace from the Mandeville point of the target system and began to search for Jerick's location in this uninhabited area. This part of the work was also very smooth. The position of this planet has indeed changed naturally over the past ten thousand years, but it still cannot escape the calculations of the Iron Hands and the observations of Debit. The fleet's auspicious instrument happened to capture its reflected signal at an appropriate distance, and all the ships began to move towards it in a neat and orderly formation.

The next step is the most exciting, but also the most problematic part of the whole process: Ferrus Manus must send a signal to shut down the orbital defense system of Mimir's Treasury while approaching the planet. In order to prevent the outflow of the forbidden equipment and knowledge that should not appear in the world, Gorgon designed a very strict and terrifying security system for his treasury - such as anti-aircraft firepower that can burn all ships approaching the planet's orbit to ashes in the void, or weapons that can inadvertently capture the fleet in orbit from space, drag it to the planet and crash it, and destroy the treasury itself.

After Istvaan V, some Iron Hands clans had tried to pass through the obstacles set by their primarch, and even if they succeeded, they were severely hit. For Ferrus himself, this loss was unnecessary - he did not want to unlock some of the forbidden knowledge, but just needed to take away a collection that he needed to use at the moment.

Although he knew that there must be many people in this fleet who did not think so.

The protective measures built by the Primarch himself were extremely sophisticated, but now, ten thousand years have passed and no one has maintained them during this period. Almost everyone in the fleet has no idea whether these exquisite protective measures can still operate as smoothly as before - except Ferrus Manus himself. Gorgon obviously has strong confidence in his past work.

The Primarch stood on the bridge, facing the control console of the Iron Fist, which was bare of decoration, even the shell was spared, and the Thinker Array had exposed wiring. He plugged the data interface on the backpack into it and personally checked the data flowing like a waterfall on the screen. The Averni clan guarded beside him, holding their breath and concentrating, not relaxing for a moment. But even the most experienced and knowledgeable veterans among them realized with near despair and equal relief that no matter how much flesh and blood they gave up or how many mind-expanding modifications they added to themselves, they would never be able to keep up with the Primarch's thinking speed.

In the band invisible to the naked eye, the Iron Fist is receiving and feeding back data with great efficiency. The beeping sound of the auspicious instrument is incessant, and each beep represents a key authentication and the transmission and reception of information requested. The Iron Hands Primarch is relying on this process to dismantle the defense system around the planet. This involves too many interlocking ciphertexts, nested calculations, passwords generated by pseudo-random numbers whose rules are known only to Ferrus himself, and complex decoding sequences. In addition, there is a very tight time limit in the process of each authentication.

No one except the Primarch has the mental ability to decipher this complex algorithm, and only Ferrus himself knows how to decipher part of the authentication. Even if another Primarch succeeds in passing all the above steps by chance, he still has to face the last decisive authentication method: fingerprint.

This sounds ridiculous. Although fingerprint authentication still exists in the empire today, the reason it has not completely disappeared is more for convenience than security. In addition, because it is too easy to forge a person's fingerprint, in areas where fingerprint authentication is used, it is generally recognized even among mortals that it should be used together with other authentication methods, such as retinal authentication or voiceprint authentication.

However, the problem with Ferrus Manus was completely different: even if someone could forge a Primarch's fingerprints, they could not forge the special living metal material on the fingertips of the Iron Hands.

Unlike his brothers and descendants, no armor could be stronger and more reliable than the metal that was integrated with him, so the power armor that Ferrus wore did not include arm armor and hand armor. He pressed his bare, silver-white palm on the scanning platform, and the platform immediately began to analyze and scan all the data on it rigorously and carefully.

The Thinker Array analyzed much more data than conventional fingerprint authentication, and in a flash, classified and packaged them according to the rules that the Primarch had established ten thousand years ago, and transmitted them to the defense system around Jerick. The latter unpacked the data in a few seconds and confirmed that all the details were consistent with the preset program. So in the end, the console screen in the bridge of the Iron Fist popped up the prompt "All authentication passed", and the sharp blade guarding Mimir's treasure house was finally sheathed for its true owner.

Ten thousand years of neglect were not enough to break a Primarch's ingenuity, and the fortifications designed and built by Ferrus during the Great Crusade were still functioning flawlessly.

The moment this prompt popped up, an inexplicable sigh of relief was heard throughout the bridge. It was obviously not made by Ferrus himself, who had never doubted whether his work could run smoothly. The sound came from several Terminators of the Averni clan. Although they were particularly surprised that such emotions could be produced in their highly mechanized bodies after being compared horizontally within the Iron Hands, this also explained why there was a bit of metal vibration in the sigh.

This little episode made the soldiers who couldn't help but sigh unconsciously feel panic and embarrassment, but the Primarch's attitude of smiling it off warmed up the atmosphere on the bridge again. The entire fleet approached Jerick's planetary orbit safely and smoothly, and after successfully ensuring the synchronization of the ground and orbit, it began to prepare for orbit-to-ground delivery.

The whole process went smoothly, without any setbacks. Of course, smooth sailing is a good thing, but it also made some suspicious people wonder:

Was their trip going a little too smoothly?

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