"I led my sons to that world to save its people."
"We stormed the Bloody Duke's fortress and killed his machine thralls. We thought it would be an easy operation, until we encountered the Iron Man passed down through the Bloody Duke's bloodline."
"An Iron Man, a security-combat model. It was not destroyed until it had wiped out half a company."
Beneath his helmet, Corvus stared fixedly at the ground, as though it displayed events from memories identical to those of his original body, as though he himself already stood upon that world under the Bloody Duke's evil rule.
Qin Mo listened in silence.
He still felt that Corvus was taking a roundabout jab at him, and he considered what he ought to say later.
It was not without reason that he thought so.
The Raven Lord Corvus and his sons going to fight on some planet during the Great Crusade might not have been worth recording.
Mad tyrants like the Bloody Duke had been everywhere during the Great Crusade.
But the Raven Lord and his sons encountering an Iron Man and losing half a company—that was something that had to be recorded.
This was not half a company from a Space Marine Chapter being wiped out, just a hundred or so men dying.
It was half the personnel of a full company in a Space Marine Legion during the Great Crusade being killed. That was a major event.
Yet Qin Mo searched his mind and found no memory of it, so it was hard for him not to think that Corvus was taking a roundabout jab at him.
The only thing puzzling him was Corvus's tone, attitude, and the resentment in his voice when he mentioned the Bloody Duke's rule. They made it feel as though this had truly