In truth, no one knew what sort of conspiracy had been brewing on Baal I, which had long been occupied by Chaos.
Only Rorschach and the other two Loyalist Primarchs vaguely sensed something unusual through the special bloodline connection between Primarchs.
However, as time rapidly slipped away,
Baal's primary world, where the three Loyalist Primarchs had temporarily gathered, officially entered a feverish state of war preparation.
Although none of the Primarchs had delivered any prewar speeches to raise morale in advance,
every Mortal Warrior and Astartes could smell the anxious scent of a large-scale war drawing near once more.
Before long, the vast majority of the Astartes forces were assigned by Regent Guilliman—whose battlefield command abilities could be called the greatest among all Primarchs—to the Unyielding and Calamity Fleets.
Millions of Intelligent controlled legion troops, along with the Machine Gods towering above the land, became the absolute main force of the ground battlefield.
And because Regent Guilliman had no idea how the invasion from the Local Universe would descend or unfold,
he had no choice but to order the Fleet Lords to temporarily distribute the massive Calamity and Unyielding Fleets evenly throughout the Baal System.
This way, the large number of Capital Ships could either provide powerful support to Baal's primary world or turn around and withdraw from the battlefield upon receiving orders from the Primarchs.
Meanwhile, under Rorschach's deliberate mediation,
the relationship between Omegon and Regent Guilliman seemed to have eased considerably.
At the very least, they could calmly discuss battlefield deployments and exchange intelligence, rather than trade ideas with fists and feet as they had when they first met.
Thud, thud, thud—
At that moment, deep beneath Angel's Bastion,
heavy Mag-boots struck repeatedly against the metal floor of an abandoned passageway covered in a thick layer of