Angron doesn't care about your lives, he just needs

True Warriors

942.M30.

Dorset System, the Hound's Tooth of the World Eaters Legion's 18th Company.

Wrapped head to toe in Power Armor, Chief Apothecary Galan Surak proudly looked over the crowd gathered on the deck.

Forty percent of the World Eaters' company commanders had attended this assembly.

Nearly half of them had been selected and gathered by Galan himself:

Gradel, captain of the 9th Company, had once proposed giving up on persuading Angron to accept them and having Kharn succeed him as Legion Master.

Vares, former Chief Librarian of the Librarius division Angron had ordered disbanded.

The other half were the company captains who had gathered of their own accord around Mago after the captain of the 18th Company had dared to resist the Primarch's order of Decimation in the Hall of Triumph:

Khorag, captain of the 21st Company; Captera, captain of the 37th Company...

There was even one potential heavyweight among them: the first of the War Hounds, former Legion Master Locke, who led the Legion's Dreadnought brethren.

He had shown Locke the state of the Butcher's Nails, and together with Mago, had persuaded Locke to observe the Legion's condition and their actions before making his final decision.

Galan was confident he could persuade Locke to follow him onto the true path of light.

As he was thinking, Mago, who stood at the center of the crowd, turned the subject to Galan.

"We should salute the Chief Apothecary. He has found a way out for a desperate Legion."

"After we implanted the Butcher's Nails, the Primarch's attitude toward us greatly improved."

"After we conquered Dorset, he personally simplified the recruitment and training processes. He began leading the Legion like a true Legion Master."

Amid the rejoicing crowd, Vares stood in a corner, his expression gloomy.

The Librarian Ioka