Within the frigid void of the Wuyou Sub-sector.
A Battle Barge with a heavy hull scarred by countless wounds was slowly returning to the heart of the Scourge Legion's vast fleet.
More Transport Ships carrying heavy vehicles and large numbers of Astartes also arrived one after another at their assigned vessels.
After the Battle Barge's mortal captain and Astartes command staff had all undergone corruption screening.
Rorschach and the others learned what this Battle Barge, which had ventured alone into the Wuyou Sub-sector, had truly encountered.
They had been fortunate because they had successfully rendezvoused with the Iron Hands fleet from back then and joined the first siege battle against Shadinus.
They had also been unfortunate because their vessel had been swept up by the Warp Storm engulfing the capital planet and its near orbit, directly teleporting them to the edge of the Wuyou Sub-sector.
By the time everyone aboard the Battle Barge had repaired the massive vessel's engine failure and barely returned to the Scourge Legion fleet through a blind Warp jump.
The large-scale war brought about by Slaaneshi corruption had already entered its final stages.
The only problem now was that, among more than thirty Imperial Worlds, at least one-third of the inhabited planets had been directly purged into Death Worlds by the Scourge Legion.
Even though the Inquisition of this Sub-sector kept dispatching Inquisitors to protest the Scourge Legion's mad conduct.
The Astartes, who obeyed only the Regent of the Dark, paid no heed whatsoever to any orders from the Inquisition.
The fact that they had not simply silenced the Inquisitors by killing them was already proof that the Astartes had become increasingly kind-hearted.
As for this, Rorschach, as a Primarch, merely pretended that he had only just learned of it.
In the name of the Regent