The 10th Battalion, Exceeding Six Legions in Strength

913.M30.

The Shadow of Order's fleet set out from the Lecter System, leaving behind only the Adeptus Custodes and the newly arrived 670th Expeditionary Fleet.

One of the old hundred regiments of the Solar Auxilia, the Gino Thousand Regiment, which had once taken part in the decisive battle of Thramas, took over the follow-up matters.

Nimrod stood before the viewing window, gazing at the desolate planet as it receded into the distance.

Before long, Lecter will be erased too, just like Hannibal and the Second Legion, "deleted from the data."

After that sigh in his heart, he clenched his fist almost imperceptibly.

I will never end up the same way Hannibal did.

As his eyes flickered, his gaze swept over the 670th Expeditionary Fleet.

Nimrod immediately recalled that after Alpharius had been persuaded by the Cabal, in order to keep the secret, he had annihilated this distinguished auxiliary force that had shed blood for the Imperium since the Unification Wars.

When he thought of Teng Namatejira, whom Alpharius had killed, he naturally thought as well of Namatejira's bodyguards, the Lucifer Blacks.

Alpharius had killed two Lucifer Blacks cleanly and effortlessly, then encountered the top swordsman Dynas Chayne.

During their clash, Chayne had relied on his extraordinary swordsmanship to pierce Alpharius's armor and make him shed a drop of blood.

Although he had been killed immediately afterward, that was still enough for him to be proud of.

I remember Chayne came from Zos. At thirty-eight, he became the captain-commander of Namatejira's personal bodyguard unit.

The civil war on his homeworld had lasted nearly a century, and he joined the fighting when he was eleven.

At thirteen, he killed sixteen enemies on the battlefield and became a ruthless veteran of a hopeless war.

Nimrod thought of the Lucifer Blacks he had supported.