The Legions Partially Assembled Already Exceeded Three Legions

Committed Forces

988.M30.

The "Kingdom of Disorder," Third Layer Space.

Nimrod picked up the gleaming triangular cone, and information on Heliosa flashed through his mind.

[The Heliosa System is located in the Ark Fringe Cluster, which consists of six star systems.]

The Ark Fringe Cluster was far smaller than the Cyclops Cluster space of the Colonid Sector, the latter encompassing more than a hundred star systems.

[The many worlds within this cluster originated from a diverse genetic baseline. They had been isolated from the human species for thousands of years and showed significant differences from the prototype genome, but within acceptable limits.

The many worlds of the six systems were connected to one another by trade corridors and shared a defense network.

The star system in which Heliosa lay was a binary-star system, inhabited by the Aivene.

...]

Nimrod had planned this long ago: before the Great Birthday Celebration, the Sequence 6 "Barons of Corruption" would collectively advance to "Mentor of Chaos."

The many civilizations of the Ark Fringe Cluster had developed for thousands of years, satisfying the advancement ritual's requirement of eleven hundred years.

Aside from Zadkiel, the Chapter Master of the "Scions of the Quill" Chapter of the "Word Bearers," who had previously advanced on the homeworld of the Jingyuan Federation, he had not summoned Balthasar Quturi, who had already advanced and become the Chief Librarian of the "Raven Guard."

He did not want to become too close to Balthasar and affect Malcador's future choice of him as Ogen, the founding Grand Master of the "Grey Knights."

Moreover, considering the future duties of the "Grey Knights," completing the advancement ritual would not be difficult.

There were twenty people advancing this time. Apart from Luther, the deputy supreme commander of the "Dark Angels" and Grand Master of the "Order