C'tan Shard

"Have the hero Felix bring this girl to see me at once."

After a moment of thought, Roboute Guilliman swiftly made his decision.

He was not sure whether this so-called Living Saint was one of his father's Chosen, or a scheme by another Primarch brother who had fallen to Chaos—Magnus, perhaps, or Tzeentch. He intended to see for himself.

Moreover, the voice that had echoed in his mind just now, together with his last conversation with Raymond, had made him realize that a vast war capable of affecting the entire Imperium of Man and even the Milky Way was brewing.

No one knew how the four Chaos Gods would react, much less what sort of devastation it would inflict upon the Physical Universe.

The only thing the Regent could be certain of was that the Emperor of Mankind and Raymond had begun making secret preparations more than a century ago, gathering an unimaginable military force without the outside world knowing a thing.

Raymond in particular, as the master of Phyrexian Oil, needed only a few days to infect an entire planet and transform it completely into a resource for war, a powerful fully automated industrial forge world, or a hive breeding facility dedicated to producing cloned Astartes.

Under such efficient operations, beyond the reach of any civilization, the entire material universe could be put to use as capital in the struggle against the powers of the Warp.

In other words, this would be the most terrifying war since the birth of the Milky Way—an infinite war, at that, because both sides possessed nearly limitless troops and resources.

"Understood. I will relay your order to the hero Felix at once and have him lead a team to Parmenio."

The leader of the Ecclesiarchy placed one hand over his chest and gave