"My lord, it's as if their souls have vanished."
The world of primordial Chaos seemed to have devoured their souls. Their souls could not be found at all.
It happened in an incredibly short span of time, as though in an instant. Their souls had completely disappeared, enough to reveal primordial Chaos's destructive threat to all living things.
Primordial Chaos?
"Enter!"
And when the people of Gamma World resolutely charged into that unknown world—
Outside, the terrifying vortex created by Chaos daemons continued to spread.
Within the Imperium—
Malcador used a powerful psychic amplifier to transmit his psychic power, connecting himself to nearly every planetary governor throughout the Imperium whom he could reach. Only the Imperium's shadowed regions, whose signals had been completely cut off by the Warp's Great Rift, could not receive it.
The other planets had all received Malcador's message to some degree.
"The Webway!"
As Malcador transmitted the information, he suddenly seemed to receive new intelligence that excited him.
If there was anything that constrained humanity's development, it was undoubtedly the Webway.
If humanity possessed enough Webway passages and could travel freely throughout the Milky Way without having to risk crossing the Warp and suffering Chaos invasion, then humanity could entirely avoid Chaos's assaults. They might even turn defeat into victory on future battlefields.
Yet humanity had never mastered Webway technology.
Even the Emperor, who had attempted to master it, had been permanently bound to the Golden Throne on Terra, the heart of humanity's Imperium in the Milky Way.
When Malcador learned that Gamma World had revealed every Webway node in the Milky Way, the surge of excitement in his heart made him tremble.
But that excitement did not last long.
For soon afterward, a belated feeling settled over him.
If—
If they had obtained this a