What? The Void Dragon!

Pertita and Aeros are roughly trillions of kilometers apart as the crow flies, so there's no need for a big fuss, much less for the family flagship to sail there.

Because of the secrecy surrounding this trip, and the fact that it involved alien technology, it was not suitable for too many people to know about it. Therefore, Alvin left the Blood Guard behind, only taking the Necron Lord and the Aeldari lady with him.

Several hours later, they arrived at this "Death World," located on the edge of the Stygian System, shrouded in a massive dust storm that made the planet's surface almost invisible, and with an extremely harsh climate.

According to Torzak, this place was a battlefield between the Necron and the Old Ones in the ancient times when the Necron were active.

But after the war ended, the Necron learned the truth about being deceived by the C'tan, so they built many Hyperdimensional Cube to imprison the fragments of the "C'tan," and this is one of them.

"This place is at least a million years removed from my time." Torzak, inside the spaceship, gazed out the porthole. Two eerie green flames flickered in his empty metallic pupils, as if reminiscing about a past glory.

He finally sighed, "Even though I'm very confident in my Necron technology, a million years is still too long. I can't be sure that the 'C'tan' fragments imprisoned in this Hyperdimensional Cube will still be there in that long."

"What if... then what if he's gone?" Alvin asked curiously.

"You'd better pray to your gods, that thing is still there." Torzak gave him a warning look, his eyes filled with unspeakable seriousness. "If it's gone—then we'd better be careful."

"What's the meaning?"

Alvin frowned, not quite understanding. "If they're gone, why should we be careful? Even if the Star God Fragment escaped, they would have already fled this planet, right?"

"Hmph--"

Torzak sneered, turning his gaze back to the grumpy Pertita, and said meaningfully, "Human, you simply don't understand the 'C'tan.' You are still very young in the grand scheme of this universe— the C'tan are very vengeful!"

As he spoke, the Necron Lord turned his head, two eerie green flames flickering in his dark, metallic eye sockets.

An unsettling restlessness leaped within him. "Believe me, if he has escaped his cage, then the first thing to do..."

They're not leaving—they'll stay here and wait for us.

Upon hearing this, Alvin couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine. "You mean, we might very well have fallen into a trap set by the C'tan?!"

"Nothing surprising, is it?" Torzak said calmly. "The C'tan severed the future of our race. We shattered their bodies and imprisoned them in cages as energy sources. It's not surprising that anything happened."

That's true... Alvin's mood tightened considerably. After all, these were gods of the Materium, each possessing power capable of destroying the world!

In his understanding, the C'tan were the most ancient and powerful beings born from the Big Bang era. They lived by absorbing the energy of stars and were originally just pure energy bodies, but after plundering and devouring a large number of lives, they all gained physical forms.

It is worth noting that the C'tan are insulators of the Warp; they are pure material beings whose power originates entirely from the Realspace. Therefore, each C'tan can be considered the most powerful non- Psychic Power entity in the universe, and is a true god of the present world!

Of course, this couldn't prevent them from being betrayed by the Necron, and thus shattered into pieces, imprisoned inside the Hyperdimensional Cube, becoming "super power banks."

"Hopefully nothing goes wrong..." Alvin could only pray silently in his heart. That damned C'tan was still in the cage, otherwise things would be quite interesting.

While they were chatting, the small spaceship had already disappeared into the atmosphere. In the violent Stormfront clouds, lightning flashed intermittently, each burst of terrifying power that shook the heavens and the earth!

In an instant!

Just as the blinding light flashed, Alvin's peripheral vision suddenly caught sight of a raging lightning bolt forming a ferocious and furious face within the thick, dark rain clouds!

At that moment, Alvin felt a chill run through him, his pupils dilated, and he turned to stare intently out the window. "Did you just see... a face?!"

"No." Hilda shook her head, noticing Alvin's serious expression, which didn't seem like he was joking, so she reiterated, "I've been watching outside the whole time, and I haven't found anything wrong. Are you just being too nervous and seeing things incorrectly?"

...".

Alvin's face was grim, his eyes gleaming. He was absolutely certain that he hadn't misread anything!

Within those thick, dark cumulonimbus clouds, though it was brief, perhaps less than a thousandth of a second, there was indeed a face etched with lightning, filled with rage!

Could it be... C'tan?!

"Calm down." Torzak was also watching outside. He said calmly, "I didn't see it either. If it really was the C'tan, I couldn't possibly not have noticed."

"I hope it's just my imagination." Alvin said this, but he was on high alert. He trusted his eyes and his intuition!

Just now, in the lightning, there really was a human face, angry and struggling—along with the C'tan, Alvin couldn't imagine what else it could be.

"Great Necron Lord, I have a question for you." Just in case, Alvin turned to Torzak: "If the C'tan has escaped his prison, do you have a way to reseal him?"

"It depends on the situation."

Torzak considered for a few seconds before replying, "If it's an initial revival without fully recovering its strength, I can barely seal one fragment. But if it's a collection of more than one Star God Fragment— "

I suggest we flee. A recovery of that level is beyond the capabilities of an ordinary dynasty; we must report it to the Phaeron!

"Excuse me, I need to interrupt you for a moment."

Suddenly, Hilda's eyes widened, staring intently outside as if she had seen something terrifying. "Alvin, what you just saw—was that this?!"

Alvin paused, then looked in the direction Hilda was pointing. Within the thick, dark clouds, he saw a face contorted with extreme rage and rage, its form shifting between reality and illusion.

Pixel-level spots occasionally fill in the gaps in its shape!

"Not good!!!"

Upon seeing that figure, Torzak suddenly cried out, his voice filled with anxiety and regret. "Quickly, get out of here! It's— Magradros!"

"What the heck?!" Alvin was completely bewildered.

"It's 'Void Dragon,' please read more books next time!" Hilda said, her face pale.

Void, Void Dragon?!

Alvin's brain went blank, but before he could react, he felt the entire spaceship suddenly shake!

Immediately afterwards, the spaceship seemed to be bound by a powerful gravitational force; all instruments malfunctioned, the engines shut down, and it began to plummet toward the planet's surface at an extremely high speed!

Damn, he knew something bad was going to happen!

Before he crashed, the last thought that flashed through Alvin's mind was that he should bring "Penny" with him—wouldn't that be perfect for his job?!