Chapter 121: The Sage
After Lu Jin had said what he needed to say, the Chapters saluted and left the command deck, returning to their respective Chapter strike cruisers.
They had expected a major battle with the Greenskins, so they had gathered in advance aboard the flagship, Judgement Day.
The Red Corsairs had dealt the Greenskins a heavy blow, preventing the battle they had expected from ever taking place. Yet this news weighed on them more heavily than the Green Tide Varros had spoken of.
"I saw in a vision that Huron would give the Red Corsairs some time to rest," Onaas said as she walked over to Lu Jin. "They won't attack us right away."
"That gives us time to grow strong enough to fight them before they attack."
As he said this, Lu Jin was suddenly overcome by déjà vu. Back in the hardest days, with his crew in the Maelstrom and the Ragefang gone, he had spoken with the same certainty and conviction.
Only then, just as now, a trace of doubt had lurked beneath that certainty and resolve.
Even back then, Lu Jin had understood that as the one holding everyone together, he had to project that kind of confidence.
"Actually, there's one more thing."
Onaas explained why she hadn't immediately returned to the Ragefang to get back to work.
She spoke through psychic power.
"When the Ragefang was extracting data from the Red Corsairs' wreckage, it discovered that the warship had once joined a fleet detachment in defeating an Adeptus Mechanicus fleet."
"On our way back, we visited the system mentioned in the data. We found a Mechanicus sage among the wreckage and rescued him."
"The sage asked me to bring him to meet you, but insisted that I keep his existence absolutely secret from