The Regent Has Arrived, Dragon Forest Star Is at Peace, and with the Regent's Arrival, the Skies Are Clear Once More!
The Regent Has Arrived, Dragon Forest Star Is at Peace, and with the Regent's Arrival, the Skies Are Clear Once More!
Fulgrim was gone.
Just as he had come, he vanished without a trace.
Aboard the Glory of Macragge, the Black Legion was steadily losing ground. Their complete annihilation was already a foregone conclusion.
Yet Guilliman, a Primarch, felt no joy at all over their brilliant victory. He studied Alvin from the corner of his eye. His superhuman senses allowed him to catch every minute change in the young man's expression and every flicker of his thoughts.
Alvin's expression was as calm as ever. He showed no sign of having been disturbed by Fulgrim's parting words, making him impossible to read.
But the Primarch, who understood human nature deeply, knew that the calmer the surface of a lake appeared, the more turbulent it was beneath!
This was very bad!
Fulgrim's final words had indeed driven a nail into the Imperium, just as Guilliman had feared, and cast a shadow over Alvin's heart.
"Your Highness, Primarch?"
Alvin had naturally noticed the Primarch's deep gaze. A gentle, humble smile bloomed across his face.
"You—" Guilliman hesitated for several seconds, but in the end, he could not bring himself to say it.
Although he knew little about the "truth" of that matter, it was something that could not be revealed now. If it was brought up at the wrong "juncture," it might very well send the future down an unpredictable path.
"Isn't there anything you want to ask me?" After thinking it over again and again, the Primarch finally decided to ask. He hoped to resolve things and, at the very least, smooth away the shadow in Alvin's heart as much as possible before the correct "juncture" arrived.
"If I ask, will you