After awakening the Kasa Dynasty, Qin Mo continued leading the C'tan through the void to resume what Trazyn's appearance had interrupted: searching for awakened Necron Dynasties and finding ways to obtain C'tan fragments.
Qin Mo no longer encountered humans enslaved by awakened Necron Dynasties either, because aside from the Menak Dynasty, where the Flayer virus ran rampant, the other dynasties had no need for flesh.
Once these Necron Dynasties awakened, the sectors they occupied lost contact with the Imperium within an extremely short time.
The humans in those awakened regions did not even receive the privilege of being raised and flayed. They were simply slaughtered to the last.
However, as Qin Mo traveled through the void at faster-than-light speed using magnetism, he could sense spatial disturbances shadowing him from afar.
It was as though something seeking to tear open space was charging up or had already taken effect. Yet these spatial disturbances were entirely unlike Psychic Power's influence on realspace; the disturbances themselves came from matter.
At first, Qin Mo paid them no mind.
The other C'tan cared even less.
But the spatial disturbances followed them like shadows. Whenever they moved beyond the range where they could sense one disturbance, another appeared.
Moreover, these disturbances were forming a particular frequency, like notes on a score.
"Necrophage language." The Chronicler was the first to leave faster-than-light travel. It stopped to sense the disturbance, then looked toward Qin Mo and the other C'tan, who had also stopped. "It is a particular frequency used for interplanetary communication when the Necrophages had only just become capable of leaving their homeworld. It is roughly equivalent to a kind of writing."
"What does it say?" Qin Mo asked. "Excitement from its users over the mass awakening of the Necrons?"
"It conveys a summons. This method of