Yao En led Vanessa all the way to the deepest part of the research base, delivered her to Lord of Tyran, who was remotely controlling a Living Metal body, then went off to attend to his own business.
With golden light clinging to her eyes, Vanessa noticed that Lord of Tyran's Living Metal body was not the only one here. There was someone else.
He wore the splendid robes of an Eldar Prophet and had a handsome face.
It was Eldrad Ulthuan of the Uswe Ark World, the Gangster Elder Prophet, Crystal Ancestor Raider.
"Lord of Humanity." Ulthuan was the first to bow to the Emperor's human aspect.
The Emperor, who loathed aliens, showed no ill will toward Ulthuan at this moment. He merely nodded slightly in return.
This was not their first meeting, but it was indeed the first time Ulthuan and the Emperor had met in a situation that was not especially urgent and required them to discuss serious matters.
"During the Horus Heresy, you rendered service to humanity," the Emperor said.
"The fates of our two races have long been bound together. I realized that even then, so it was only proper." Ulthuan nodded with an elegant smile.
Qin Mo, standing nearby, knew why the Emperor was friendly toward Ulthuan.
During the Horus Heresy ten thousand years ago, Ulthuan had sought out Fulgrim and tried to persuade him not to join Horus, because it would accomplish nothing. But Fulgrim had already been corrupted by Slaanesh at the time.
Ulthuan had then tried to kill Fulgrim, and naturally failed.
Any other Eldar might have begun to hate humanity at that point, believing that the fall of the superhuman freaks created by mankind had caused the galaxy to suffer another tragedy.
But Ulthuan possessed greater foresight and a broader