Nimrod's Idea of the Best Source of Soldiers

In the Third Layer Space of the Kingdom of Disorder, Nimrod set down the Dice of Prophecy.

He then entered the star map he had just divined, the one pointing to a new piece of Be'lakor's Relic Fragment, into the Data Crystal.

After finishing the star map entry, Nimrod turned the shining Data Crystal, his eyes deep.

"So it's actually in the Antimatz Sector. Not the Koronus Expanse, and not the neighboring Calixis Sector either."

"Then there's no rush."

Nimrod received reports from the Cradle of Serpents and the Fourth Legion stationed on Sonem VIII, and could not help thinking of the trail of a new Be'lakor Relic Fragment that Arsena Dunn had recently discovered in the Hrud Mycelium Scroll.

Because the information was too vague, he could not pinpoint it precisely. He could only confirm that it lay within the Veiled Region.

Nimrod considered that perhaps seizing the Shadow Blade had triggered some anomaly, so he immediately used the cooled Dice of Prophecy for divination. In the end, he found that it was not in that region.

"The Antimatz Sector."

He repeated the region indicated by the divination in a low voice, and a savage world flashed through his mind.

"Vespid."

Vespid was a world Nimrod had always wanted to subdue.

If loyalty was not considered—or more accurately, if it was loyalty based on wealth—then the Vespid were, in his view, the best source of soldiers.

Especially with Chaos about to rise.

He had not acted before only because he had not been confident he could subdue the Vespid.

After all, even the already established Departmento Munitorum of the Imperium, which would hold even greater power in the future, had tried every possible method and still failed to subdue the Vespid.

But now, he was already the "Mentor of