"Follow them."
Horus made the final decision: they would continue tailing Szarekh's fleet.
The clone Primarchs all fell silent.
The ship continued following Szarekh's fleet while concealed within The Chronicler's dimensional space.
The Necrons' most powerful fleet was still wandering aimlessly through the void, and so was the ship carrying the clone Primarchs.
However, as the clone Primarchs took shifts observing the Necron fleet, they discovered that although it appeared to be wandering without purpose, it was actually heading only toward locations with unusual astronomical phenomena. Upon reaching a location, it would dispatch an exploration fleet.
The exploration fleet would copy a nebula or some other strange astronomical phenomenon at a one-to-one scale and throw it into an opened spatial rift.
This continued for over a month before an unexpected development immediately brought the clone Primarchs back together on the bridge.
The unexpected development was not that the Necrons had discovered them, but that a C'tan had appeared directly near the Necron fleet.
The ship's sensors indicated that it was a complete C'tan.
It was exceptionally weak, though—more than twice as weak as C'tan like The Chronicler and Mimic.
"How could a C'tan be meeting with the Necrons?" Guilliman stared in surprise at the scene beyond The Chronicler's dimensional space.
Everyone remained silent.
Because as far as they knew, the Necrons and the C'tan were absolute mortal enemies. A massive Necron fleet and a complete C'tan should not have been able to coexist.
"The Seeker." After a silence, Lorgar spoke, his gaze falling on Horus. "That is the Seeker. I saw what this C'tan looked like when I was with The Chronicler—a planet covered in eyes!"
Horus was briefly surprised, then delighted.
The planet-like C'tan covered in eyes lingered near Szarekh's fleet. Neither side appeared to do anything, but they