Speaking of Cadia, Grot thought for a moment and said, "I heard Creed didn't even shout 'Cadia stands' before he died. Unbelievable."
"That's perfectly normal." Qin Mo looked calm. "His lifelong wish was to see the Eye of Terror close. Once that moment came, the fate of the Cadians was no longer what it had been. The age of standing firm was over. The age of undying fighting spirit had arrived."
"That's true." Grot recalled the war cries the Cadians had shouted during the war against the Necrons.
No longer "Cadia stands," but "our fighting spirit endures."
Neither Qin Mo nor Grot wanted to spend much of this meeting discussing other people, so they stopped talking about Cadia.
Qin Mo brought up Grot's own affairs. "Grey told me you entered a boxing match without prosthetic bodies? After the battle for Talon Terra, nearly your entire body was replaced with prosthetics. How did you compete in a no-prosthetics boxing match?"
"It was simple. I switched to prosthetics at a normal human level." Grot smiled as he answered.
"That was a nerf for you. Your original body was already far beyond ordinary humans." Qin Mo shook his head with a smile.
Grot was not bothered by it. "If I didn't switch to a weaker body, what young man would be willing to trade blows with an old bastard in the ring, only to get beaten so badly by that old bastard that he'd be crawling around with broken teeth, clutching the referee's leg and howling his surrender?"
"Mm. I doubt the people you beat senseless ever imagined that a vicious guy like you would spend his free time helping others look after their children." Qin Mo tugged lightly at the large ear of the child in his arms.
The child had no