Chapter 124: The Dust Settles

Chapter 124: The Dust Settles

No longer listening to the angry curses of his acolytes, Scyvilla felt an unprecedented calm.

He turned and walked back into the room where the reactor was. Although Lucan's soldiers also felt fear in the face of death, at this moment, they too calmly accepted their fate.

Scyvilla slowly took off his power armor and also sat on the ground.

"Lucan Mongorte… an interesting fellow. I'd like to see what kind of different world you can turn the Koronus Expanse into, with the opportunity bought for you by our deaths. I will go to the Golden Throne, and I will ask the great God-Emperor, are you truly so worthy of His trust?"

Lucan couldn't hear Scyvilla's words, but he saw his calm demeanor.

Lucan knew Scyvilla was a smart man, but his composure had somewhat exceeded Lucan's expectations.

"Worthy of a Lord Inquisitor… a tough customer indeed!"

He had originally thought Scyvilla would attack his soldiers in a final, desperate struggle.

Lucan no longer paid attention to what was happening below. The StarCraft soldiers warped in required no pension; they had no families here. But they too had their own lives, their own names, and they too were giving their lives for Lucan.

In the end, their deaths were still due to Lucan's selfish motives. Even if it was in the best interest of the Dynasty, Lucan had no intention of bringing his act of sending them to their deaths out into the open.

The soldiers had already begun to evacuate one after another, boarding transport aircraft.

Because the reactor's overload level was continuously increasing, the entire planet was now experiencing massive earthquakes.

"Pavian! How is the collection of the technological legacy going?! You have an hour at most!"

"My Lord! Give us a little more time! The amount of information is simply too vast!"

Pavian was reading the massive amount of information within the Cogitator. He felt as if his own storage components were about to explode.

Pavian even had to stick a Purity Seal on his own forehead, trying to improve the operating efficiency and capacity of his storage components.

If given enough time, he could have completely backed up all the data here.

But now, he and his Tech-Priests could only pick and choose the important parts.

An hour passed in the blink of an eye, and the earthquakes on the entire planet grew more severe.

Most of the soldiers had completed their evacuation. The traitors' attempts to take off and flee were ruthlessly struck down by the warships in orbit. Those traitors with no ability to leave could only look at the sky in despair and accept death. The Chaos Gods they worshipped would not come to save them.

The entire planet had already been surrounded. The enraged loyalists would absolutely not give the traitors any chance to live.

Lucan rushed into the Mechanicus sanctum where Pavian was.

He roughly stopped Pavian and his Tech-Priests from continuing to collect knowledge.

"There's no time! Pavian! Let's go! Soldiers, bring all the Tech-Priests!!"

"Just a little more! I can still collect more! Lord Lucan! There's still time!"

But no matter how Pavian pleaded, Lucan gave him no choice.

For these Tech-Priests who regarded technology and knowledge as life itself, watching these technologies disappear was simply more painful than killing them.

Lucan directly carried Pavian and then boarded a shuttle.

If Pavian hadn't already had his tear glands removed, Lucan estimated Pavian would have cried on the spot.

The shuttle carried all the soldiers back to the warship in orbit.

And Lucan immediately ordered the warship to begin moving away from this collapsing planet.

Most of the fleets in orbit had already retreated.

However, what Lucan didn't expect was that a portion of the extremely loyal members of the Kourda Dynasty were still piloting shuttles towards the planet's surface. Their Rogue Trader had not returned, and they were attempting a final effort.

But their attempt was destined to be just a pointless loss of more lives.

But more people could see that this planet was about to collapse. They pushed their warships' speed to the maximum. And when the warships had traveled a sufficient distance, this planet, polluted by Chaos, began to disintegrate.

Energy, as if to destroy heaven and earth, burst forth from the planet's core.

Lucan, on the bridge, watched this planet. Suddenly, the bridge was enveloped by the dazzling light erupting from the planet's core. The continental plates were folding and reorganizing into blasphemous geometric shapes, and the planet's atmosphere completely vanished.

A black hole briefly appeared at the planet's center, rapidly devouring the land.

The massive energy from the planetary core also destroyed the link between the Warp and reality. The Warp rift that had been continuously devouring the planet also began to slowly close.

Even though the fleet had already moved a great distance away, the shockwave from the explosion still affected the fleet.

"My Lord! The entire planet is gone…" the Boatswain said, stunned. Those who had personally witnessed the scene of an entire planet's destruction were speechless for a long time.

And Lucan also knew that the dust had settled.

And after a brief silence came countless communications hailing Lucan's fleet. Both the Imperial warships and the Kourda Dynasty's warships all drew closer.

None of the high-ranking Imperial leaders had returned, and the only one who had come back was Lucan. This was something they all found unacceptable.

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"Lord Lucan! How is it that only you and your soldiers have returned! Where is Lady Aspice! Where did she go!" a representative from the Kourda Dynasty questioned Lucan.

And the members of the Inquisition from the Imperial side also raised their own questions. Even people from the Adeptus Mechanicus had come here; the loss of a Magos was also very serious for the Mechanicus.

Moreover, a large amount of the Adeptus Mechanicus's sacred assets had also been lost on that planet. The Mechanicus had also had large investments in the Winterscale capital.

"By the God-Emperor! What do you mean, 'only I and my soldiers returned'? My troops also brought back a large number of soldiers from other factions who were fighting on the planet! Without me, they too would have been turned to nothingness along with that planet!

I know what you are all thinking! You must think that I deliberately caused the deaths of Lady Aspice and Lord Inquisitor Scyvilla, right? What reason would I have to do so? Both of them dedicated themselves for the sake of the great God-Emperor! They voluntarily proposed to go and overload the void shield's reactor. This was a suicide mission from the very beginning.

And I remained in the uphive with my warriors to buy time for them. That Chaos God even used a ritual to summon its Greater Daemon, Skarbrand!"

At Lucan's words, everyone fell silent. Most people didn't even know of the existence of Greater Daemons, let alone the name Skarbrand.

Only the members of the Inquisition knew what this name represented.

But for them to believe that Lucan had defeated Skarbrand was something they could never accept. They knew very well the extent of the losses a Greater Daemon of this level would bring to the Imperium whenever it arrived in the material universe.

"Impossible! On what basis do you make this claim? Your army? Lies! Everything you say is a lie!"

"Lies? If you don't believe my words, then what if it's the Astartes of the Space Wolves? Or what if we add the surviving members of the Deathwatch?"

(End of Chapter)

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