As conflict erupted within the High Lords of Terra's chamber, the Solar System's many orbital defenses and void-monitoring facilities continued operating normally.
A monitoring device orbiting Terra passed above the High Lords' chamber. Its Servitors detected Guilliman calmly conversing with the High Lords inside. Everything appeared normal.
Yet in the void, a tiny object that the monitoring systems could not detect hurtled into the Solar System, speeding toward Terra.
That undetectable tiny object was a person.
Qin Mo used magnetism to race past the Phalanx. Being extremely cautious, he even skirted the very edge of the Phalanx's detection range to avoid surveillance, though that was probably unnecessary.
The reason Qin Mo knew the effective ranges of the Phalanx and the other monitoring facilities, and could travel this route so expertly, was a plan conceived back when Talon was merely the name of a star system.
At that time, the Inquisition had already arrived in the Talon System, and the situation had been extremely tense.
The plan devised for the most extreme circumstances was for every Talon citizen to become a soldier and resist an assault by Space Marines and the Astra Militarum, while the Lord of Tyran went alone to Terra to strike at the High Lords of Terra.
The route Qin Mo now followed was the one determined back then.
The probe launched from the Talon System at the time had been roughly the same size as Qin Mo's body. It had gone smoothly then, and it went just as smoothly now.
After bypassing every monitoring system, Qin Mo reached Terra's low orbit and began diving toward the High Lords' chamber.
Even the Himalayas could not detect the person plunging into the atmosphere at such speed.
One second later, a deafening crash came from the roof of the High