What?
Why?
Vetius had already made up his mind to leave Gamma World.
He would never come back.
But then...
What had he heard?
Gamma World had just conquered a Necron dynasty.
And acquired a C'tan shard.
This...
How was he supposed to leave now?
"..."
Vetius felt like a donkey pulling a millstone, while someone dangled a carrot over his head, constantly whetting his appetite.
The carrot they had dangled before was the Synapse Condenser.
And now, the carrot was a C'tan shard.
Once modified, that thing could produce a reality-shattering weapon powerful enough to destroy the Fifth Chaos.
"..."
"..."
Vetius looked at the two students. There wasn't a single good person on Gamma World. They treated people from the Imperium like donkeys.
Making them work for free without even paying them.
Although he knew they definitely wanted to use him as cheap labor again,
he had to admit that he was deeply tempted.
If he could use a C'tan to modify his weapons, none of his technology would need energy to activate anymore.
A shard containing C'tan energy was enough to supply an Imperium as enormous as Commorragh.
It was equivalent to the energy resources of an entire star sector.
"Master isn't leaving?"
"Master?"
"..."
What was there to leave for?
He might be able to acquire plenty of technology elsewhere, but he would absolutely never find a complete Necron tomb or research into a Necron C'tan shard.
The research here into mathematics, physics, and the universe could equal half a lifetime of his own research.
"Hmph!"
"Chief Brown, Sage Vetius has been invited over."
Brown did not hold any particularly deep grudge against Vetius. After all, Vetius had merely looked down on him in the past, and Brown had already retaliated. Now, so long as Gamma